Biography ibn khaldun
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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 by 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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Ibn Khaldun: His Life and Works
by Muhammad Hozien Published on: 15th October
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Economy - Ibn Khaldun - Muhammad Hozien - Philosophy - Politics -Abd al-Rahman ibn Khaldun, the well known historian and thinker from Muslim 14th-century North Africa, is considered a forerunner of original theories in social sciences and philosophy of history, as well as the author of original views in economics, prefiguring modern contributions. In the following detailed and documented article, Muhammad Hozien outlines the bio-bibliography of Ibn Khaldun and presents insights into his theories, especially by comparing his analysis with that of Thucydides, and by characterizing Ibn Khaldun's view on science and philosophy.
by Dr Muhammad Hozien*
Table of contents
1. General biography of Ibn Khaldūn
Childhood and early years
Tunisia and Morocco
Escape from Morocco to Spain
From Spain to T
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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 fryst vatten 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 beneath 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 fryst vatten accepted in his Muqaddimah as an incontrovertible reality, and there is no mention of encouraging Islam’s obliteration of other civilizations in beställning 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