@article{2016,title={RECONSTRUCTION OF HISTORY: IBN KHALDUN’S CRITICAL, SCIENTIFIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH TO HISTORY},abstractNode={Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) is a sophisticated philosopher of history who over held classical Islamic thought and so represented the second breaking after Ghazali (d. 1111) in history of Islamic thought. Ibn Khaldun became the founder of an original science and systematic philosophy which includes cultivation of his era’s social, political and scientific essences on an intellectual field. His intellectual adventure that he started with criticizing historians before him, arrived to the climax with his reconstruction of history on a scientific and philosophic ground. This article, starting with the main clues about what is the critical thought, aims to analyze how the history has been dealt by Ibn Khaldun, a 14. centuary Islâm philosopher, with a critical, scientifical and philosophical approach and on which intellectual ground has been reconstructed as a science and as a philosophy. This article’s key concept is general social organization. General social organization is just one of the a lot of genuine concepts which Ibn Khaldun used in Muqaddimah and presented to the scientific world. “General social organization theory” which Ibn Khaldun has improved includes the establishment of a suitable methodology science for history and understandig of history as a metaphysics of history and society. Ibn Khaldun, treating history in a critical way, reached to such conclusions on history that no thinker before him could reach to them and he established the history as an independent science which has its special methodology (general social organization science). He also pointed out that the history is a superior science which has the value of wisdom and with an historian approach he sistematized the history as a philosophical subject on a ground which has a conceptul framework and a methodology special to it.},author={Muhammet İRĞAT},year={2016},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science Studies}}