Ibn Khaldun's Methodology between Academic Social Studies and Practical Reality

To try to understand and analyze social phenomena, we must know the basic principles in their history that were formed and developed through sites and theories formulated by a group of historians since ancient times in order to establish an acceptable historical method that expresses truth and realism away from subjectivity and imagination, as the beginnings of studying the historical scientific entitlement in the course of human life and its interactions and patterns of formation and change of its phenomena began through the philosophical dialectic that was the starting point of the historians of the ancient Greeks, then the Arab Muslims, and in particular the historical method became mainly linked to the name of the thinker of the fourteenth century, the great Arab historian and philosopher Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldun, who conducted a comprehensive and in-depth study of society that combines logical composition and analysis through induction and deduction of reality and facts in order to understand them and know their nature. This is what allowed for the distinction between general history as a general theory of history and as a science that studies general social laws. Through this intervention, we aim to highlight the role of Ibn Khaldun in establishing the historical research method and establishing its scientific foundations in sociological fields.