Ibn Khaldun writes the Muqaddimah
Writing in Qalat Ibn Salama, Ibn Khaldun analyzed how states rise and fall through asabiyya — group solidarity — economics, climate and cohesion.
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A science of society three centuries before the Enlightenment: cyclical, evidence-based, skeptical of chroniclers. Toynbee called it the greatest work of its kind ever produced.
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- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy — Ibn Khaldun