The Low Performance Of The Present-day Muslim World And The Application Of Ibn Khaldoun’s Theory Of Development

Résumé: It has been known that ethic values play a crucial role in the development of countries and the evolvement of their civilizations. In addition to those spiritual values, there are other factors which co-work to assure the continuousness of the existence of that civilization. These latter are all related to society, economy, politics, and history. Through this paper, we intend to deal with Ibn Khaldoun’s multidisciplinary and dynamic theory of development. In fact, this theory argues that the development or decline of an economy or society does not depend only upon one factor, but rather on the interaction of different factors such as moral, social, economic, political and historical factors over a long period of time. One of these factors acts as the trigger mechanism and, if the others respond in the same direction, development or decline grows gradually through a chain reaction until it becomes difficult to distinguish the cause from the effect. Then, we are going to try to apply this theory to Muslim countries to explain the reason behind their low performance,

Publié dans la revue: الاكاديمية للدراسات الاجتماعية و الانسانية