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Ibn Khaldun

1332 - 1406

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Ibn Khaldun (27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732–808 AH) was an Arab Islamic scholar, historian, philosopher and sociologist. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, and considered by a number of scholars to be a major forerunner of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography studies. His best-known book, the Muqaddimah or Prolegomena ("Introduction"), which he wrote in six months as he states in his autobiography, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ibn Khaldun is the 2nd most popular historian (up from 3rd in 2019), the most popular biography from Tunisia (up from 2nd in 2019) and the most popular Tunisian Historian.

Ibn Khaldun is best known for his book, "The Muqaddimah." In it, he discusses the rise and fall of civilizations.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, Ibn Khaldun ranks 2 out of 561. Before him are Herodotus. After him are Thucydides, Sima Qian, Tacitus, Xenophon, Livy, Josephus, Diodorus Siculus, Alexis de Tocqueville, Polybius, and Suetonius.

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Among people born in 1332, Ibn Khaldun ranks 1. After him are John V Palaiologos, Charles II of Navarre, Xu Da, Theodora Kantakouzene, Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia, Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg, Muhammad VI of Granada, William Langland, Vladislaus II of Opole, Franco Sacchetti, and Pero López de Ayala. Among people deceased in 1406, Ibn Khaldun ranks 1. After him are Pope Innocent VII, Tokhtamysh, Henry III of Castile, Claus Sluter, William, Duke of Austria, Robert III of Scotland, Coluccio Salutati, Eustache Deschamps, Joanna, Duchess of Brabant, Çandarlızade Ali Pasha, and Maria de Luna.

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In Tunisia

Among people born in Tunisia, Ibn Khaldun ranks 1 out of 210. After him are Hannibal (-247), Claudia Cardinale (1938), Aemilianus (207), Terence (-185), Tertullian (155), Cyprian (200), Hasdrubal Barca (-300), Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (1936), Habib Bourguiba (1903), Gordian II (190), and Fatima al-Fihri (800).

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Among historians born in Tunisia, Ibn Khaldun ranks 1. 

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