Abstract

Ibn Khaldun followed Ghazzali in his theological criticism of philosophy, attention to religious beliefs, and considering formal logic as a science independent from the Peripatetic metaphysics. However, he stood at a distance from him in terms of his epistemological criticism of philosophy. He believed that philosophy was not enough for man's eternal and supernatural happiness and limited it to the domain of physics. His criticism of philosophy was based on empirical knowledge, and he avoided abstract concepts in this regard. In this way, his ideas are similar to William of Ockham, the English thinker of the 14th century. Nevertheless, unlike Ockham's criticisms, which created an independent philosophical trend in Western philosophy, Ibn Khaldun's critical ideas of philosophy remained incomplete in Islamic philosophy.