biography
pronunciation:
[ibin khaldoon]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1332–1406)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, historian, and politician, born in Tunis, Tunisia. He held various political positions in Spain, but largely abandoned politics in 1375, and in 1382 went to Cairo, where he became professor and a chief judge. His major work was a monumental history of the Arabs, Kitab al-ibar. The influential Maqaddimah (Introduction to History) outlined a cyclical theory of history by which nomadic peoples became civilized, attained a peak of culture, were then corrupted by their own success, and were in turn destroyed by another, more vigorous nomadic culture. |
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