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Ibn Khaldun

1332 - 1406 AD

808 - 732 AH

He is Abu Zayd Wali al-Din Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad, better known as Ibn Khaldun. He was born in Tunisia on May 27, 1332 A.D. He studied at the beginning of his life with his father, and then with the scholars who gathered in Tunisia during that era from Morocco and Andalusia, following the current events at that time. So he learned the Noble Qur’an with its various readings, then he studied linguistic sciences such as language, grammar, morphology, rhetoric, literature, poetry, then philosophy and logic.

He rose to several job positions, and he was a member of the Scientific Council of Sultan Abi Anan in Fez. He assumed the job of writing for several sultans during his reign in Fez, then he traveled his first trip to Andalusia between the years 764-766 AH and the second between the years 766-776 AH, where he held several positions, then returned to Morocco and devoted himself to studying between 776-784 AH.

Then he traveled to Egypt, where he remained between 784-808 AH. He held the position of judiciary and teaching of the Maliki school several times.

Ibn Khaldun wrote a lot, but only his first book, Kitab al-Ibr, Diwan al-Mubtada and al-Khabar fi the days of the Arabs, Persians, and Berbers, and their contemporaries with the greatest authority, and then the book al-Ta’rif, which is the life story of Ibn Khaldun, have been written by him himself.

The most important effects of Ibn Khaldun. It is the introduction to the book Al-Abr or its history, in which he presented a lot of social laws and political theories about the state, and the West took a lot from Ibn Khaldun and impersonated many of his theories. It had a great influence on the world and humanity for centuries.

Ibn Khaldun married in 754 AH and had children.