Philosopher · High and Late Middle Ages · Tunisia
Ibn Khaldun
1332–1406
Tunisian born historian and thinker whose Muqaddimah, the introduction to his world history, founded the study of how societies rise and fall. He served courts across North Africa and Spain, met Timur in 1401, and died at Cairo. He lived 1332 to 1406.
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- Born
- 1332, Tunis, Tunisia.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ibn Khaldun
- Died
- 1406, Cairo, Egypt.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ibn Khaldun
- School
- No school; the founder of historiography and early sociology.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ibn Khaldun
- Known for
- The Muqaddimah and its theory of asabiyyah, group feeling, which binds tribes into states and loosens as luxury corrupts them.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Ibn Khaldun
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