Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Khaldun

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 3,170,512 page views. His biography is available in 122 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 120 in 2019). Ibn Khaldun is the 2nd most popular historian, 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.