Speech about Naturalities in Ibn Khaldoun: Biology Model

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Hichem DAOUD, Khalil Kadi

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Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), a north-African historian, is not a naturalist. Besides, few Arabic scientists of the Middle Ages were biologists, as the Arabic Sciences were mainly focused in Mathematics, Astronomy and Medicine. However, like many other philosophers and Muslim thinkers of the Middle Ages, Ibn Khaldun was interested in the Nature’s order, the world living wonders, and finally Creation’s dilemmas. In an extract of his master-piece The Muqaddima, he exposes his point of view about living world order, linking Creation and possible transformation of living beings (for instance monkeys slipping into Human’s).

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