This paper aims at studying the changes occurring in residential
components and cultural backgrounds of residents and their effect
upon urbanism and urban structures in areas of cultural values, and
thus discovers the reasons of their deterioratio
n and binds them
with urban and non-urban aspects together with assuring the
importance of non-urban aspects in forming the spirit and character
of these areas.
The methodology of this study depends on pursuing human beingplace
relationship, considering cultural, social and urban outcomes
through studying human being's relationship with the place of
cultural value and a certain place within " traditional quarter" “Al
hara” in particular, and the cultural social effects of this relationship
upon urbanism and residential environment in historical nucleuses
of Arabic cities.
The aim of this research is to study the concept of history and evolution for
“IbnKhaldun” through a systematic illustration of the meaning of history. Therefore, we
present this research in order to reach the philosophy of history for “IbnKhaldun”
and to
highlight the importance of this philosopher as one of the founders of the philosophy of
history as his conception of history makes him close to contemporary philosophers.
This perception is crystallized to history on rejecting the “empiricalconcept”
radically. Therefore, we find that the history of “IbnKhaldun” is not a narrative of news,
but it is an explanation of eventsin which we can build it a new science.
The concept of progress that was crystallized in the eighteenth century has signs in
the introduction of IbnKhaldun in which he presented a methodology for studying history
in its interior movement and not in appearance. In addition, the problematic questions that
raised by “IbnKhaldun” opened horizons for knowledge and development such as:
What is the relationship between historical knowledge and historical writing? Is it
possible for history to be part of science?
This research also points to the errors of historians, which occur for many complex
reasons that might be psychological, social, political and cultural.
The errors also may happen because of a lack in knowledge about the laws of nature.
