Ibn Khaldūn, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān

by Cheddadi, Abdesselam

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Abū Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn Khaldūn (d. 808/1406) was one of the greatest Arab historians, a philosopher, and a sociologist before the latter term existed. He is the author of a monumental universal history titled Kitāb al-ʿibar wa-dīwān al-mubtadaʾ wa-l-khabar fī ayyām al-ʿArab wa-l-ʿajam wa-l-Barbar wa-man ʿāṣarahum min dhawī al-sulṭān al-akbar (“The book of lessons: A treatise on the beginnings and the history of the Arabs, non-Arabs, Berbers, and the great rulers of their

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Abū Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn Khaldūn (d. 808/1406) was one of the greatest Arab historians, a philosopher, and a sociologist before the latter term existed. He is the author of a monumental universal history titled Kitāb al-ʿibar wa-dīwān al-mubtadaʾ wa-l-khabar fī ayyām al-ʿArab wa-l-ʿajam wa-l-Barbar wa-man ʿāṣarahum min dhawī al-sulṭān al-akbar (“The book of lessons: A treatise on the beginnings and the history of the Arabs, non-Arabs, Berbers, and the great rulers of their

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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