Ibn Khaldun

Born

May 27, 1332

Died

March 17, 1406 (aged 73)

Known as

anthropologist, historian, judge, autobiographer, sociologist, economist

Ibn Khaldūn was an Arab Tunisian scholar, historian, philosopher, and sociologist. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, and is considered by a number of scholars to be a major forerunner of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography studies.

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