By Dr. Spahic Omer
- Introduction: Who was Ibn Khaldun?
Franz Rosenthal, the translator of Ibn Khaldun’s masterpiece in literature on philosophy of history and sociology “al-Muqaddimah” (Prolegomena), noted that “writing the biography of Ibn Khaldun would not seem to be a particularly difficult task, for he left posterity an autobiography which describes the events of his life in great detail and presents the historical background clearly.” Ibn Khaldun’s description of his own life gives us such an accurate knowledge of events in his life that it unmistakably stands out as the most detailed autobiography in medieval Muslim literature.
Ibn Khaldun was born in Tunisia in 733 AH /1332 CE. His full name is Abu Zayd ‘Abd al-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hidrami al-Magribi. The name Ibn Khaldun is given after a remote ancestor.
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