Ibn khaldun biography summary of thomas
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IBN KHALDUN
His Life and Work
1332 - 1406 / 732 - 808
BY
Muhammad Hozien
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Childhood and his Early Years
In Tunisia and Morocco
In Morocco and Spain
From Spain to Tunisia
Adventures in North Africa
Map of Ibn Khaldun's Travels (illustration)
To Egypt
Meeting Tamerlane
The world at Ibn Khaldun's time (illustration)
Final Days in Egypt
The Magnum Opus "al-Muqaddimah"
Facsimile of the cover page of the manuscript in Arabic(illustration)
Endnotes
Bibliography
He is indeed the one outstanding personality in the history of a civilization whose social life on the whole was 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short'.
In his chosen field of intellectual activity he appears to have been inspired by no predecessors, and to have found no kindred souls among his contemporaries, and to have kindled no answering spark of inspiration in any successors ; and yet, in the Prolegomena