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Ibn Khaldun

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NameIbn Khaldun
Birth date27 May 1332 AD / 732 AH
Death date19 March 1406 AD / 808 AH
EraMedieval era
RegionMuslim scholar
SchoolMaliki madhab,
Islamic economic jurisprudence
Main interestsSocial Sciences, Sociology, History, Historiography, Cultural History, Philosophy of History, Demography, Diplomacy, Economics, Islamic Studies, Military Theory, Philosophy, Politics, Statecraft, Theology
Notable ideasForerunner of demography, historiography, cultural history, philosophy of history, sociology, social sciences, and modern economics. Developed theories of Asabiyyah and the rise and fall of civilizations.
Influenced byAristotle, Muhammad, Malik ibn Anas, Muhammad ibn Zakarīya Rāzi, Farabi, Avicenna, al-Ghazali, Averroes, Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Muslim economists
InfluencedAl-Maqrizi, Robert Flint, Taha Hussein, Arnold J. Toynbee, Ernest Gellner, Franz Rosenthal, Franz Oppenheimer, Arthur Laffer, Fernand Braudel, social scientists

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Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun (full name, , , Berber name: Ben Xeldun; May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH - March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH) was a North African polymath — an astronomer, economist, historian, Islamic jurist, Islamic lawyer, Islamic scholar, Islamic theologian, hafiz, mathematician, military strategist, nutritionist, philosopher, social scientist and statesman—born in North Africa in present-day Tunisia. He is considered a forerunner of several social scientific disciplines: demography, cultural history, historiography, the philosophy of history, and sociology. He is also considered one of the forerunners of modern economics, alongside the earlier Indian scholar Chanakya. Ibn Khaldun is considered by many to be the father of a number of these disciplines, and of social sciences in general, for anticipating many elements of these disciplines centuries before they were founded in the West. He is best known for his Muqaddimah (known as Prolegomenon in English), the first volume of his book on universal history, Kitab al-Ibar. Ibn Khaldun's ideas were not absorbed by his society, nor were they carried forward by its future generations. A general intolerance of science pervaded Arab culture, and scientists were not free to publish their ideas.

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CNN (blog)--Editor's Note: Frankie Martin is -Ibn Khaldun- Chair Research Fellow at American University's School of International Service and is a contributor to the new ... - Date : Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:23:59 GMT+00:00
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News Trends (blog)--He even attributed the vision behind it to the great sage -Ibn Khaldun- Berber, who died in 1406, founder of supporting many social science disciplines. ... - Date : Fri, 11 Jun 2010 00:57:17 GMT+00:00
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With no common culture, a common history is elusive - The Guardian Tweet this news
The Guardian--Seven centuries ago, the Arab polymath -Ibn Khaldun- put all this far more poetically. "If the soul is impartial in receiving information," he wrote, ... - Date : Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:00:50 GMT+00:00

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