Ibn Khaldun

Ibn KhaldÅ«n or Ibn Khaldoun (full name, Arabic: أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي‎, AbÅ« Zayd ‘Abdu r-Raḥmān bin Muḥammad bin KhaldÅ«n Al-Ḥaḍrami, May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH – March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH) was an Arab Muslim historiographer and historian, and one of the founding fathers of modern historiography,sociology and economics. He is best known for his Muqaddimah (known as Prolegomena in English), which was discovered, evaluated and fully appreciated first by 19th century European scholarship, although it has also had considerable influence on 17th-century Ottoman historians like ḤajjÄ« KhalÄ«fa and Mustafa Naima who relied on his theories to analyze the growth and decline of the Ottoman Empire. Later in the 19th century, Western scholars recognized him as one of the greatest philosophers to come out of the Muslim world. Continue Reading »

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