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IBN KHALDUN, Wali al-Din 'Abd al-Rahman b. Muhammad b.

Ibn Khaldun Biography - Facts, Childhood, …

Muhammad b. Abi Bakr Muhammad b. al-Hasan (/), one of the strongest personalities of Arabo-Muslim culture in the period of its decline. He is generally regarded as a historian, sociologist and philosopher. Thus his life and work have already formed the subject of innumerable studies and given rise to the most varied and even the most contradictory interpretations.

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Life.

Ibn khaldun's life may be divided into three parts, the first of which (20 years) was occupied by his childhood and education, the second (23 years) by the continuation of his studies and by political adventures, and the third (31 years) by his life as a scholar, teacher and magistrate. The first two periods were spent in the Muslim West and the third was divided between the Maghrib and Egypt.

At Tunis.

Ibn khaldun was born in Tunis, on 1 Ramadan /27 May , in an Arab family which came originally from the Hadramawt and had been set