Ibn Khaldun
1332 – 1406 North African Arab historian, sociologist
The founder of the philosophy of history and an early sociologist.
- Religion
- Muslim; a jurist and scholar in the Maliki tradition.
- Affiliations
- Statesman and judge in North Africa and Egypt. No secret society.
Ibn Khaldun wrote the Muqaddimah, an analysis of how societies rise and fall through group solidarity and economic change. It broke with mere chronicle to seek the laws of history, founding a science of society. Modern historians and sociologists recognize him as a forerunner.