Tag: Khilafat-o-Mulukiyat

By Bilal A. Malik History does not mean chronological reporting of historical events. Historiography has no implication, and must not be considered as a ‘methodological principle’, if the ‘written words’ of history don’t connect with the process of restructuring the ‘meaning’ of present and planning the nature of events in future. As argued by Ibn Khaldun, influent Muslim sociologist, in the Prolegomenon (Muqaddimah) of his voluminous universal history Kitab al-‘Ibr, “the inner meaning of history, on the other hand, involves… an attempt to get at the truth, subtle explanation of...