Abstract:

The celebrated ideas of Ibn Khaldun in respect of the themes of historicism, civilization, and political economy are critically examined in the light of the qur'anic methodological worldview on the same. A comparative approach is also maintained with the historistic ideas of several Islamic scholastic thinkers and the occidental scholarship. Selected applied topics are examined to bring out the validity of the critical argumentation and the Islamic perspective on these topics. These topics, briefly examined, point out the differences between the qur'anic interactive, integrative, and evolutionary learning world-system and the secular Khaldunian approach to the same themes. The other topic briefly examined is the nature of money in qur'anic perspective and Khaldunian theory of historicism, civilization, and political economy. The comparative neo-liberal theory of capitalism is also examined in the general and partial equilibrium contexts of macroeconomics and microeconomics, respectively, within the comparative politico-economic contexts of Ibn Khaldun’s thought. A critical study of Khaldunian theory of historicism, civilization, and within these of political economy.

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