Criticising Of Ibn Khaldun’ Ideas On Relationship Between Word And Meaning Ibn Khaldun claims that "Poetry and prose work with words, and not with ideas. The ideas are secondary to the (words). The (words) are basic." ( Ibn Khaldun 782) He shows three proof for it. First one is that meanings are the same, but words are different. We need to learn how to use words. The second one is that the mind does not need to be trained. The last one is that memorising allows people to "taste" eloquence. I will evaluate these three claims by giving a couple of example from some books and ideas. Firstly, many scholars such as Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani*1 -language scholar- and Said Nursi*2 disagree with Ibn Khaldun on the point of the relationship between words and ideas". Roughly, Ibn Khaldun exemplifies that although water (meaning) is the same, bowls (words)are different, the important one is bowl because bowls should be appropriate for water ( Ibn Khaldun 782)....