Ibn khaldun brief biography samples

Arab historiographer and historian (–)

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Ibn Khaldun (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 – 17 March , – AH) was an Arab^[11][12]sociologist, philosopher, and historian^[13][14] widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages,^[15] and considered by many to be the father of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography studies.^{[16][17][note 1][18][note 2]}

His best-known book, the Muqaddimah or Prolegomena ("Introduction"), which he wrote in six months as he states in his autobiography,^[19] influenced 17th-century and 19th-century Ottoman historians such as Kâtip Çelebi, Mustafa Naima and Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, who used its theories to analyze the