The Ideal Education in Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah

Ibn Khaldun has been described as the first Islamic scholar to write about the science of Imran ‘Urbanism,’ and as the founder of the science of human society. He offered a complete history of Arab sciences and literature from the rise of Islam through to the 8th Hijri century. This paper concentrates on Ibn Khaldun's educational background and how it affected his perspective on children's upbringing and education. In his famous book; the Muqaddimah (meaning the ‘Introduction’ in Arabic), Ibn Khaldun wrote significant opinions about education and the most ideal methods of bringing up and instructing children. His views were fully explained throughout several chapters of his Muqaddimah. However, chapter six thereof deals with this subject in particular, covering many of its important facets.