History & Society
Ibn Khaldūn
Muslim historian
Category:
History & Society
- In full:
- Walī al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ibn Abī Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Ibn Khaldūn
- Born:
- May 27, 1332, Tunis [ia]
- Subjects Of Study:
- North Africa
- philosophy of history
- On the Web:
- Georgetown University - "Ibn Khaldun, the Father of Economics" (Jan. 08, 2024)
Ibn Khaldūn (born May 27, 1332, Tunis [Tunisia]—died March 17, 1406, Cairo, Egypt) 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. Ibn Khaldūn was born in Tunis in 1332; the Khaldūniyyah quarter in Tunis still stands almost unchanged and, in it, the house where he is believed to have been born. As Ibn Khaldūn relates in his autobiography (Al-taʿrīf bi Ibn Khaldūn), the family claimed descent from Khaldūn, who was of South Arabian stock, and had come ...(100 of 2753 words)