The Concept of Social Transformation and Urbanisation “Al-Imran” in Ibn Khaldun’s Introduction

Abstract

This study proposes to submit a modern critical reading for Ibn-khaldoun’s theory of human society and the most important bases and standards that construct the term urbanization (imran) in his introduction . The study includes the comparison with some scholars and philosophers which agree or differ in opinion with Ibn Khaldoun in the seismological history ,sociology and the political system. Moreover, the study sheds the light on analyzing the features of the humane urbanization and the nature of the cultural transition reaching to the establishment of countries and their collapse; these features include tribal racism, economic factors and ecological impacts