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Ibn Khaldun writes the Muqaddimah

Philosophy · Africa · Tunisia

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