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ibn Khaldun

[ ib-uhn khahl-doon ]

noun

  1. Abd-al-Rah·man [ahb-dahl-, rah, -mahn], 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher.


ibn-Khaldun

/ ˌɪbənˌkɑːlˈduːn /

noun

  1. ibn-Khaldun13321406MArabHISTORY: historianPHILOSOPHY: philosopher 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher. His Kitab al-`ibar ( Book of Examples ) is a history of Islam
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The paper's lead author is former MIT postdoc and Ibn Khaldun Fellow Shahad Alsaiari.

Arab historian Ibn Khaldun recalled with horror, “Civilization both in the East and the West was visited by a destructive plague which devastated nations and caused populations to vanish. It swallowed up many of the good things of civilization and wiped them out.’

Said would later refer to himself as a comparatist and was as enthralled with the medieval Arab historian Ibn Khaldun as he was with the Italian Enlightenment philosopher Giambattista Vico.

Because of this “destructive plague which devastated nations and caused populations to vanish,” the Arab historian Ibn Khaldun wrote, “the entire inhabited world changed.”

It is similar to what the 14th century historian Ibn Khaldun called asabiyya, an Arabic word with no exact translation, in part because it conveys something stronger than mere social solidarity.

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