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Books by Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) was a North African Arab statesman, historian, and philosopher born in Tunis. He served as a diplomat, judge, and advisor to multiple sultans across North Africa, Andalusia, and Egypt, and spent a dramatic period as a negotiator with Tamerlane at the siege of Damascus in 1400. He wrote the Muqaddimah in 1377 while in seclusion in Algeria and spent subsequent decades revising and expanding it. He is considered the founder of historiography, sociology, and economics as systematic disciplines. He died in Cairo in 1406.