Ibn Khaldun’s reputation had as many ups and downs in his lifetime as it did in his afterlife. The fourteenth-century Arab historian won and lost favour with different Muslim rulers, from Spain all along the coast of the Maghrib to Egypt, and different stages of his career saw him in palaces or in prison. But if Ibn Khaldun was a careerist, he also was a survivor.
24 May 2018, The Tablet
Topical insights from the fourteenth-century Arab historian Ibn Khaldun
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