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Ibn Khaldun, Historian and thinker

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ScholarHistorian and thinker

Ibn Khaldunابن خلدون

Tunis

A Tunisian scholar whose Muqaddimah explained how dynasties rise and fall.

He served courts across the Maghreb and al-Andalus, then wrote the Muqaddimah in a fortress in Algeria in 1377. It argues that group solidarity ('asabiyyah') builds states and luxury dissolves them. As a Maliki judge of Cairo, he met Timur outside Damascus in 1401.

What grew out of it?

He is counted among the founders of sociology and the philosophy of history.

Where do they appear in the story?

Who else is linked?

TunisAl-MaqriziTimurHafsidsMarinidsMamluk SultanateBarquqCairo and FustatTiaretFez

Who lived at the same time?

Firuz Shah TughluqMuhammad V of GranadaMurad ISultan HasanAbu Inan FarisTimurMansa SulaymanBarquq

Source: history · Wikipedia

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