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Ibn Khaldun

Arab historiographer and historian

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Ibn Khaldun was a male anthropologist, historian, judge, and autobiographer born in Tunis on 27 May 1332. He died in Cairo on 17 March 1406. His native name was عبد الرحمٰن بن مُحمَّد بن خلدون الحضرمي, and he was educated at Ez-Zitouna University. He practiced Islam and spoke Arabic. His fields of work included economics, sociology, philosophy, and anthropology.

His notable works include *Muqaddimah* and *The book of lessons*. He was influenced by Averroes. Other works attributed to him include *al-ʻUmrān al-badawī* and *Mukhtārāt min [miqaddimat] Ibn Khaldūn*. He had a sibling named Yahya Ibn Khaldun. He is described by sources such as the *Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary* and the *Encyclopædia Britannica* 11th edition.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 27 May 1332
Died: 17 March 1406
Works: 144

Top works

Kitāb al-ʻibar wa-dīwān al-mubtadaʾ wa-al-khabar f̣ī ayyām al-ʻArab wa-al-ʻAjam ẉa-al-Barbar wa-man ʻāṣarahum min dhawī al-sulṭān al-al-akbar wa-huwa tarīkh waḥīd ʻaṣrih
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al-ʻUmrān al-badawī
Muqaddimat al-ʻallāmah Ibn Khaldūn
Mukhtārāt min [miqaddimat] Ibn Khaldūn

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Effect of Endocrine Disruptor Pesticides: A Review
· 2011 · cited 847x
A critical analysis of the impacts of COVID-19 on the global economy and ecosystems and opportunities for circular economy strategies
· 2021 · cited 669x
Operational vs. embodied emissions in buildings—A review of current trends
· 2013 · cited 538x
Spinodal Dewetting in Liquid Crystal and Liquid Metal Films
· 1998 · cited 526x
Nutritional Composition and Bioactive Compounds in Tomatoes and Their Impact on Human Health and Disease: A Review
· 2020 · cited 412x

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Quotes

“The only people who accept slavery are the Negroes, owing to their low degree of humanity and proximity to the animal stage. Other persons who accept the status of slave do so as a means of attaining high rank, or power, or wealth, as is the case with the Mameluke Turks in the East and with those Franks and Galicians who enter the service of the state [in Spain].”
“The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection.”
“Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place as the first philosophical discipline and the introduction to philosophy. Therefore he is called the First Teacher.”
“Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.”
“Their qualities of character, moreover, are close to those of dumb animals. It has ever been reported that most of the Negroes of the first [climatic] zone dwell in caves and thickets, eat herbs, live in savage isolation and do not congregate, and eat each other. The same applies to the Slavs. The reason for this is that their remoteness from being temperate produces in them a disposition and character similar to those of the dumb animals, and they become correspondingly remote from humanity.”
“Royal authority is a noble and enjoyable position. It comprises all the good things of the world, the pleasures of the body, and the joys of the soul. Therefore, there is, as a rule, great competition for it. It rarely is handed over (voluntarily), but it may be taken away. Thus, discord ensues. It leads to war and fighting, and to attempts to gain superiority.”

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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Ibn Khaldun, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Histoire des berbères et des dynasties musulmanes de l'Afrique septentrionale [Texto impreso]

Histoire de l'Afrique sous la dynastie des Aghlabites, et de la Sicile sous la domination musulmane. Texte arabe d'Ebn-Khaldoun, accompagne d'une trad. francaise et de notes par A. Noeh des Vergers

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Encyclopedic overview

Ibn Khaldun (27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732–808 AH) was an Arab scholar, historian, philosopher, and sociologist. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, and is considered by a number of scholars to be a major forerunner of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography studies.

His best-known book is the Muqaddimah or Prolegomena ("Introduction"), which he wrote in six months as he states in his autobiography. It later 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 growth and decline of the Ottoman Empire. Ibn Khaldun interacted with Tamerlane, the founder of the Timurid Empire.

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