Ibn Khaldun’s Ilmual-Umran Pioneering Paradigm in the World Pyramids of Social Sciences

The author of this book has a sociological imagination that has made him consider the huge world volume of social sciences like several pyramids built through the ages, where Ibn Khaldun inaugurated the building of the first pyramid in his famous book, The Muqaddimah. Ibn Khaldun’s innovative social science work is the outcome of multiple factors, among which are his creative personality that allowed him to perceive and capture the dynamics of latent and manifest features of Muslim societies, particularly in North Africa, which other scholars failed to do.

Furthermore, his scholarly vision had set his path to achieve great success in being the social science pioneer in the entire world. He had a critical view of Arab Muslim historiography: Arab and Muslim historians had pitfalls in their methodology and in the analysis of historical events. In the views of Ibn Khaldun and Thomas Kuhn, their works were hardly credible. Thus, there was a pressing need to solve the Arab Muslim historiography’s crisis. The Muqaddimah’s new sociological perspective, according to both Yves Lacoste and Arnold Toynbee, is an exceptional intellectual piece of work. Professor Dhaouadi believes that The Muqaddimah constitutes a new paradigm to meet that crisis.

In Kuhn’s terms, The Muqaddimah sets the pace for reforming the science of Arab Muslim Historiography by shifting from what Kuhn calls normal science to revolutionary science. Ibn Khaldun’s sociological approach is inclusive (it stresses the influence of both latent and manifest factors in shaping society and individual behaviours); he was unlike Positivist contemporary social scientists, who give prominent role to manifest factors. They are rather exclusive social scientists. One may claim that The Muqaddimah has revolutionized the relation between the disciplines of history and sociology in North Africa and the Arab Muslim world by affirming that ‘good historians must be first of all good sociologists.’

Saving Hampton Grace

Some wounds bleed beneath the skin. Some desires burn in the dark. Hampton Grace has spent her life teetering on the edge of oblivion, drowning in shadows only she can see. In a world where failure feels inevitable, she hides behind ink and paper, pouring her torment into stories no one will ever read. Then there’s Walker—effortlessly charismatic, dangerously perceptive, and haunted in ways he refuses to admit. He sees the cracks in Hampton’s carefully constructed walls and senses the weight of the darkness she carries. And he isn’t afraid to step into it. Drawn into his world of quiet control and whispered surrender, Hampton finds an unexpected solace in his touch—where pain becomes catharsis, trust is given freely, and pleasure and suffering blur into something she never expected to crave. But the deeper she falls, the more the lines between salvation and destruction begin to blur. Walker vowed to pull her from the abyss. But in doing so, he may have tethered himself to it. Raw, provocative, and unflinchingly honest, Saving Hampton Grace is a darkly seductive tale of love, longing, and the demons that refuse to be silenced.

The House Built On A Hill

This is a humorous story about a moose who decides to move in and take over a boy’s house that the boy built where the moose was living.

The moose and other animals decided they had had enough with humans polluting and taking over their lands, squeezing them out of their natural habitat.

The humans, realizing what they had done, try to make it right by cleaning up the land and learning to share the territory and all nature with the animals.

The Little Town That Saw It All

It’s a very small town with a population of just under 100, named Crossroads, set in the most northeasterly county in Kansas. It is the late 1940s, and the area’s most successful farmer is hit with a heartrending, life-changing personal tragedy. He turns to God, his preacher, and ultimately a fortune teller for answers. She turns out to be more than a fortune teller.

What follows are unexpected romances, ties to terrorists in Peru, the complexity of small-town politics, the murder of one of the town’s most unpopular citizens, and a series of mysteries, as a town with a utopian view of itself gradually sees that myth explode. It is a gripping, suspenseful, and powerful tale with a completely unexpected ending.

The strange series of events that unfolds in this little burg over a period of about two years calls into question the notion that rural Americans are less likely to commit crimes and are more patriotic, more neighborly, and more likely to adhere to and abide by Christian morals and values, than folks in the cities.

Though its farmers and small-town residents might deny it, Crossroads becomes the little town that saw it all.

The Best Way to Make Money: 2nd Ed.

Sultan, a former government official, embarks on a high-stakes journey into the cutthroat world of private business. Under the mentorship of the enigmatic and powerful Abu Hamoud, he is tasked with saving a company from the brink of collapse. With a promise of a partnership hanging in the balance, Sultan confronts a web of corruption, sabotage, and personal betrayals.

But as he transforms the company into an unprecedented success, he learns a difficult lesson: that some victories are more valuable than wealth, and some promises are meant to be broken.

Will Sultan’s integrity survive in a world where everyone has a price? Or will he become just another player in a game where the only rule is that the best way to make money is to share it with others?

Fatal Omens

The European “war to end all wars” was a catastrophe decades in the making. The prophetic voices of alienated writers and artists in Central Europe were at the turn of the twentieth century divining the end of modernity while seeking cultural and spiritual renewal. Cracks in the optimistic liberal order of the European Age were coming apart and ceding to darker forces.

Against this backdrop, historical novelist Stephen Almássy foregrounds the lives of Archduke Charles of Austria, Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia and Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma. Their marriage before the Great War culminates during the war when they become the last Emperor and Empress of Austria-Hungary under the Habsburg scepter. The old Central European dynasty, the last outpost in Europe of the imperium sacrum, falls on the day, November eleventh, 1918, when the war comes to an uncertain end.

Love Evermore

Love Evermore is a heartfelt journey through feelings, dreams, and the many layers of life. This book invites you to a special place within, where words speak to the soul and awaken a new outlook on the world. Dear reader, open your heart and let these pages move you. Love Evermore is more than a story. It is a statement of joy, a collection of prayers, and a celebration of love itself.

Those She Left Behind

When Jaime Springer’s act of loyalty to her volatile boss, Richard Kingston, results in a harrowing assault, she keeps the trauma hidden, fearing for her job and her future as a single mother. Years later, Richard’s death reveals a shocking secret about his health, forcing Jaime to confront the possibility of her own illness and the potential devastation for her young daughter, Hope. An unexpected alliance forms when the brilliant Krystal Thomas takes over Richard’s position, becoming Jaime’s boss, confidante, and staunchest ally. As Jaime’s health declines, their friendship deepens, navigating a challenging legal fight, newfound love for Krystal, and the ultimate question of who will care for Hope.

Burnt Cove

When Rose O’Reilly White, a respected member of the small-town Deer Isle, Maine, community, died at age 97, she left many secrets, some monstrous and others magical, including her first love, a young woman who died in a tragic fire in 1942. This woman was her teacher; Rose was a teenager. Another secret was her later long involvement with an African-American woman. A third was her poisoning and killing a Catholic priest of many years ago after Rose learned he was a serial pedophile and wanted to prevent him from abusing other victims.

Rose’s husband, Bill, another respected member of the Deer Isle community, knew and accepted all this. But unlike others who die leaving secrets, Rose left a key to open them, and her filmmaker son Jack brings them to light as he sets out to produce a documentary of her life—an endeavor that reunites him with his first love, with whom he had a daughter unbeknownst to him until they are together again.

A novel unlike any other, Burnt Cove artfully blends horror, supernatural, dark fantasy, time travel, love, death, and mystical resurrection.

Falling

Feelings are what make us alive; experiencing fear or anger is normal. Having some sad moments or even hate is so human, but love is the most powerful thing. I believe with love we can change lives, and we could have a meaningful life. Love makes challenges easier and opens doors and gives us power to face hard moments and bad complicated conspiracies.

To be honest, I love love; just the idea makes me thankful. That’s why I like to share it and talk about it with trust and hope. And what makes it exciting for me is when we find it in the strangest moment, and just the two persons involved feel it logically, like they were waiting for it.

Maybe my story is fiction, but the feelings are real.

Inheritance of Silence

Silence has a way of shaping us. It can wound, conceal, and suffocate—but it can also become the spark that ignites transformation.

Inheritance of Silence is not just a novel; it’s an invitation to step into the fragile spaces where grief collides with strength and where loss becomes the unexpected teacher of resilience.

John Erik Dunnam weaves a narrative that is as unflinching as it is luminous, pulling readers into a world where identity is reclaimed piece by piece, and survival is not just about enduring but about awakening.

At its heart, this is a story of confronting the shadows we inherit—whether from family, circumstance, or silence itself—and choosing, against all odds, to carve out light.

For anyone who has carried the weight of unspoken pain, who has struggled to be heard in a world that prefers quiet compliance, this book resonates as both a mirror and a beacon.

Inheritance of Silence promises not only to captivate but also to leave you changed—stirred, challenged, and inspired to find your own voice in the echoes.

Meghan and Martin Break the Rules

This novel, like the earlier one, Meghan and Beth discover, It’s a Men’s World, the underlying theme that women are people. People who often are not allowed to oversee their own sexuality.

Nature has programmed humans’ life force toward reproduction, although that force can be directed toward many goals, good or bad for society.

Gender expectations can even lead to ignoring the presence of women in the street, in meetings, and in organizational plans.

Cultural definitions are often unconscious, may facilitate, but often interfere with relationships between men and women. These unconscious gender prescriptions show up early in the novel as Meghan and Martin return from their honeymoon and set up their apartment. Gender issues show up at work in sexism. Racism intertwines with sexism in the book.