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Ibn Khaldun (/ ˈ ɪ b ən h æ l ˈ d uː n / IH-bun hal-DOON; Arabic: أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, Abū Zayd ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khaldūn al-Ḥaḍramī, Arabic: [ibn xalduːn]; 27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732–808 AH) was an Arab sociologist, philosopher, and ...
Jul 4, 2024 · Ibn Khaldūn (born May 27, 1332, Tunis [Tunisia]—died March 17, 1406, Cairo, Egypt) was the greatest Arab historian, who developed one of the earliest nonreligious philosophies of history, contained in his masterpiece, the Muqaddimah (“Introduction”). He also wrote a definitive history of Muslim North Africa.
Oct 15, 2010 · Abd al-Rahman ibn Khaldun, the well known historian and thinker from Muslim 14th-century North Africa, is considered a forerunner of original theories in social sciences and philosophy of history, as well as the author of original views in economics, prefiguring modern contributions.
Mar 19, 2021 · Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work laid down the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics.
Jul 4, 2024 · Ibn Khaldūn - Historian, Philosopher, Muqaddimah: In 1375, craving solitude from the exhausting business of politics, Ibn Khaldūn took the most momentous step of his life: he sought refuge with the tribe of Awlād ʿArīf, who lodged him and his family in the safety of a castle, Qalʿat ibn Salāmah, near what is now the town of Frenda, Algeria.
Ibn Khaldun (1332 – 1406) was one of the most remarkable Muslim scholars of the pre-modern period. He founded what he called the science of human society or social organization, as well as a new methodology for writing history and a new purpose for it, namely to understand the causes of events.
Ibn Khaldun (d. 1406) is one of the most influential and important Muslim thinkers in history. Ibn Khaldun has inspired at least as much interest among modern ...
Abu Bakr Muhammad b. al-Hasan, better known as Ibn Khaldun, was born in the North African region of Ifriqiyah (Tunis) in 1332. Well known and controversial in his time, his Muqaddima (Introduction), has become one of the best-known and important works on medieval historiography for modern scholars.
Ibn Khaldūn , orig. Abū Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Khaldūn, (born May 27, 1332, Tunis, Tun.—died March 17, 1406, Cairo, Egypt), Noted Arab historian. He was employed in court posts by various rulers in Tunis, Fès, and Granada.
Ibn Khaldûn was educated first by his father and then by prominent Muslim scholars. He memorized the Koran (holy book of Islam) and studied grammar (rules for use of a language), law, rhetoric (art of effective speaking and writing), philology (study of language in literary works), and poetry.
