Ibn khaldoun biography
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Ibn Khaldun
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 bygd a number of scholars to be a major forerunner of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography studies.[16][17][18][note 1][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
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About Ibn Haldun
Ibn Khaldun ( – ) was a statesman, diplomat, scholar, sociologist and judge. His masterpiece Muqaddimah “Introduction” also bears testimony to his skills in some other fields such as economy and poetry too. He is not only considered a philosopher of history but also the first one. Ibn Khaldun defined civilization as a “corporate social actor,” turning it into an individual discipline, and studied the behavior and reactions of civilizations under different circumstances.
He often served as a high judge in the multi-civilizational societies that extended from Andalusia and Morocco to Egypt and Syria. For this reason, a multi-civilizational social order is accepted in his Muqaddimah as an incontrovertible reality, and there is no mention of encouraging Islam’s obliteration of other civilizations in order to exercise hegemony over them. Ibn Khaldun’s Ilm al-Umran al-Bashari (Science of Human Civilization) and western classical sociology have dealt with and studied th
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Ibn Khaldun
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| Born | Abdul Rahman Ibn Khaldun 27 May Tunis, Tunisia |
| Died | 17 March (aged 73) Cairo, Egypt |
| Known&#;for | Being an influential Arab Thinker. |
Ibn Khaldun (; Arabic: أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي, Abū Zayd ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khaldūn al-Ḥaḍramī; 27 May – 17 March ) was an influential Arab thinker of the 14th century. His family were from Andalusia. Khaldun served the governments of the day in many ways. He was sometimes in prison. He lived in Marrakesh in Morocco for a time, and in Granada. Then he moved to Cairo, where he was a judge.
The most famous book Khaldun wrote is the Kitāb al-ʻIbar (Book of Lessons), a history of the world. The first part, Muqaddimah (Introduction) is often used alone. This book is often credited as inventing sociology. He also wrote his autobiography.
Ibn Khaldun lived a life in search of stability and influence. He came from a family of