Seminar Ibn Khaldun: How To Shape A Universal Paradigm Of Human Sciences From The History Of Maghreb Countries?

Pr. Ali Benmakhlouf

October 24, 2024

UM6P Campus – Benguerir

The first lecture titled “Ibn Khaldun: How To Shape A Universal Paradigm Of Human Sciences From The History Of Maghreb Countries?” took place on October 24, 2024, and was presented by Prof. Ali Benmakhlouf, Director of CAS and Professor. The conference  assessed the most contemporary readings on the one hand, and 19th, 20th century appropriations on the other. But it will also look at how ibn Khaldun’s text offers new 14th-century concepts for thinking about human society (Al Umrân), historical fact and the elements that promote or threaten social ties (Al Asabiyya). It’s a conceptual approach with universal value, proposed by an author who belongs to a Maghrebean cultural axis which, in the eyes of Western thought, has remained a minor axis.