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Ibn Khaldun

1332 - 1406

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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 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732–808 AH) was an Arab sociologist, philosopher, and historian widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, and considered by many to be the father 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ibn Khaldun has received more than 3,381,812 page views. His biography is available in 128 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 122 in 2019). Ibn Khaldun is the 3rd most popular historian (down from 2nd in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Tunisia 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 3 out of 561. Before him are Herodotus, and Josephus. After him are Thucydides, Xenophon, Sima Qian, Livy, Polybius, Tacitus, Suetonius, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Diodorus Siculus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1332, Ibn Khaldun ranks 1. After him are John V Palaiologos, Charles II of Navarre, Theodora Kantakouzene, Frederick III, Landgrave of Thuringia, Xu Da, Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg, Vladislaus II of Opole, Muhammad VI of Granada, Franco Sacchetti, Pero López de Ayala, and William Langland. 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, Joanna, Duchess of Brabant, Eustache Deschamps, Balthasar, Landgrave of Thuringia, and Maria de Luna.

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In Tunisia

Among people born in Tunisia, Ibn Khaldun ranks 2 out of 210. Before him are Hannibal (-183). After him are Claudia Cardinale (1938), Tertullian (155), Terence (-185), Cyprian (200), Habib Bourguiba (1903), Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (1936), Gordian II (190), Hamilcar Barca (-275), Masinissa (-238), and Mago Barca (-243).

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Among HISTORIANS In Tunisia

Among historians born in Tunisia, Ibn Khaldun ranks 1. 

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