IBN KHALDUN

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Ibn Khaldun was a North African Arab Muslim historiographer, historian, and economyc. Who has a complete name Wailuddin Abdurrahman bin Muhammad bin al-Hasan is claimed as a forerunner of the modem diciplines of sociology ang demography. Ibn Khladun, who is best known for his book (the Muqaddimah) was born on 27th of May 1332 in Tunis-Tunisia. Not long after the birth of Ibn Battuta, he was born in Tunis, in North Africas born. He was from a rich Muslim family there. His family was originally from Spain, but like many others they had fled the Christian reconquest of Spain and moved to Tunis a Short while before Ibn Khaldun was born. In Tunis, Ibn Khaldun went to the best schools. He memorized the entire Quran and studied the works of Ibn Rushd (Averroes), al-Ghazali, and Ibn Sina (Avicenna). He knew the works of Aristotle and Plato, too. Bvut in 1348, when Ibn Khaldun was only 17, both of his parents and some of his teachers died in the Black Death.

As an adult, Ibn Khaldun had many advantures and traveled all over the place. He, he made hajj to Mecca, and also visited Morocco and Spain. Ibn Khaldun lived in Egypt for a long time, where he lost his wife and children in a ship wreck. As a reseprentative of the Egyptian army, Ibn Khaldun met the invader Tamerline, and got to know all about the Mongols.