Ibn Khaldun - "The Father of Sociology"

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this impromptu episode, Adnan teaches Henry and the audience about the great 14th-15th Century scholar Ibn Khaldun, who is sometimes called the "father of sociology". Ibn Khaldun also revolutionized the methodology of historical analysis in his time, and provides an excellent subject for us to discuss!

Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Bamboo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The prince had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:28.1	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global
0:33.7	proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:39.3	I'm your host, Henry Huckamacki, joined by one of my co-hosts for a very impromptu, unplanned, unscripted
0:47.3	episode, which hopefully we'll see how it comes out.
0:51.2	I'm joined by Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion
0:55.6	at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing? I'm well, Henry. It's
1:01.4	great to be back with you. I'm sorry, I missed the last episode. It was a great one. But we're going to do
1:07.1	some free forum chatting today, and I'm really looking forward to it.
1:16.0	Yeah, this is the Rev. Sorry, the guerrilla history version. I wish this was Rev left.
1:21.6	This is the guerrilla history version of freeform jazz, really, because we had showed up for recording one topic and for a certain reason we're not able to record about that topic right now.
1:27.8	And so we just decided on the fly that we would talk about something completely unrelated,
1:32.8	which I am absolutely unprepared for.
1:35.5	But fortunately, Adnan, you will be able to teach me along with the audience.
1:39.8	So what are we going to be talking about today during this episode?
1:43.8	Well, Henry, I want to talk just a little bit, perhaps about a figure from the 14th, early 15th century, North Africa,
1:53.7	who was a pretty profound historical and social thinker that most people will not have heard of named Ibn Khaldun. His full name was
2:04.5	Abu Zaid, Abdurrahman, Ibn Muhammad, Ibn Khaldun al-Hadrami, and he died in 1406. And you can find,
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