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The Refutation of Astrology in Ibn Khaldūn's Muqaddima: A Study of His Multileveled Reasoning Capability
- Philosophy East and West
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 69, Number 3, July 2019
- pp. 721-736
- 10.1353/pew.2019.0059
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Abstract:
The aim of this article is to show that Ibn Khaldūn's refutation of astrology in his Muqaddima is a point of access to the understanding not only of his stance toward this discipline but also of his general intellectual orientation concerning History and the way of writing it.