Reflections on the Evolution of Mediaeval Cairo in Light of Ibn Khaldoun’s Theories of Culture

Abstract

The author's Master's thesis, which served as the study's basis, was utilized as the essential source. It is an attempt to understand a portion of the components that influenced the development of mediaeval Cairo and its formation drawing on Ibn Khaldun’s concepts of society and social change. It depends on the idea that the actual development of a city mirrors the social factors that support the verifiable cycle. As a social observer, Ibn Khaldun explored the social factors behind verifiable occasions. He developed a theory of history based on a cyclical pattern of social development that leads to the rise and decline of political institutions. Because of progress, the city is accepted to follow this inescapable developmental example. In this review, a few parts of Cairo (Al-Qahirah) will be inspected considering Ibn Khaldun's perspectives. The review is divided into two parts: the first gives an overall synopsis of the hypothesis and its understandings utilizing Ibn Khaldun's Introduction (Al Muqaddimah) and scholastic papers by different students of history and social researchers who have concentrated on Ibn Khaldun. The thought is applied in the second part to numerous components of Cairo's advancement and formation, as found in its arranging attributes and authentic structures. The primary history specialist of Egypt at that time, Al-Maqrizi, composed itemized manuscripts that will be utilized to sort out the authentic subtleties of the city during that time.