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Philosophy / Middle Ages
Ibn Khaldun
1332 — c. 1406伊本·赫勒敦
Arab Islamic scholar, historian and philosopher (1332–1406)
Born1332
BirthplaceTunis
Fieldsanthropologist, historian, judge
The story, in brief.
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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- 1332
- c. 1406~ age 74
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