The biography of 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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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 (–) was one of the most remarkable Muslim scholars of the pre-modern period. He founded what he called the science of human gemenskap or social organization, as well as a new methodology for writing history and a new purpose for it, namely to understand the causes of events. While his ideas had little impact on the development of Muslim thought for several centuries, they hugely impressed europeisk thinkers from the nineteenth century on—some of them proclaimed Ibn Khaldun a progenitor of sociology and modern historiography.
This book introduces the reader to Ibn Khaldun's core ideas, focusing on his theory of the rise and decline of states. It presents the story of Ibn Khaldun's life, his political ups and downs, and some features of his character that contribute to an understanding of the development of his ideas. The central concept of ʿaṣabiyya (group solidarity) and the factors that lead to its dilution are explained in detail, as also the method of testing (histor