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Ibn Khaldun
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Ibn Khaldun

1332–1406

Tunisian historian; a founding figure of sociology and historiography.

Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) endures among the great of Africa. Tunisian historian; a founding figure of sociology and historiography.

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