The Pathology of Ibn- Khaldun's Method for Exploring Social Laws (Development Science) with Emphasis on the States

For distinguishing historical authentic narrations from, Abdul Rahman Ibn Khaldun false narrations, investigates human community in order to be acquainted with its features and laws. He has established a discipline in this field named ‘’Umran’’ {Development} which covers the beginning of his history book “Kitāb al-ʽIbār”. This discipline deals with the rules governing the community which Ibn-Khaldon claims he has discovered through a discursive method. The main criticism directed to Ibn-Khaldun’s Introduction is that there is something missing in a number of the cases of the social laws mentioned above, especially those which have to do with states. This flaw is ascribed to his way of extracting the laws. The basic problem in Ibn-Khaldun’s laws lies in two things: 1. discarding the area of methods and using a rational method in the area of empirical method 2. abiding the conditions of no method in practice.