Religious Foundations of the Sociological Thoughts of Ibn Khaladūn

The sociological thought of Ibn Khaladūn has attracted many of the thinkers, the interpretations which have been drawn out from the views of Ibn Khaladūn are different, some of them are contradictories as well, some researchers affirm that the method of Ibn Khaladūn in his presenting the sociological subjects and founding the science of civilization are based upon his severance in regard to the system of Islāmic thought, some others have acknowledged his social reflections to be based upon religious knowledge, in addition some other moderate thinkers acknowledge that the causes of the rise and the fall of the Islāmic civilization, his personal characters and his wide researches are of the motives of the apprehension of Ibn Khaladūn which are determined in his method in the presentation of sociological subjects and the foundation of science of civilization.The objective of this descriptive and analytical article is to study the epistemological denotation of the sociological thoughts of Ibn Khaladūn theoretically. The principal question of the article is: "What are the relations between his social thoughts and the bases of his knowledge?" The findings show that the sociological thoughts of Ibn Khaladūn and the foundation of science of civilization were based upon the effect of his Islāmic views.