ABSTRACT
Unfortunately, the names of Muslim scholars are not as well known in the West today as I believe they should be. When I talk of Ibn Khaldūn (d. 1406), people usually ask: Who is he? Another terrorist? Any links to Osama bin Ladin? Or is he an oil sheik or an Arab minister? Even the scholars who have heard of Ibn Khaldūn may well ask: How is Ibn Khaldūn, the Arab in question, relevant to our problems in the twentieth-first century?
