Ibn Khaldūn or Ibn Khaldoun (full name, , ) (
May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH –
March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH), was a famous
Arab Muslim polymath: a
historian,
historiographer,
demographer,
economist,
philosopher,
political theorist,
sociologist and
social scientist born in present-day
Tunisia. He is considered the father of
demography,
cultural history,
historiography, the
philosophy of history,
sociology, and the
social sciences, and is viewed as one of the forerunners of modern
economics. He is best known for his
Muqaddimah (known as Prolegomenon in
Latin).
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