One of the enduring questions in the Social Sciences regards the genesis of "political change". Ibn Khaldun is considered as a founding figure of sociology who has provided one of the original answers to this question. Ibn Khaldun, however, is actually a thinker whose "vision and method" is not confined to Sociology or Philosophy of History, nor is the significance of his thought to be cofined to a past historical era. This paper discusses Ibn Khaldun's contribution to the question of political change via his Elm al Umran (the life Science).