Ibn Khaldun The Coming of the Second World War From the debates over how

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Ibn Khaldun The Coming of the Second World War From the debates over howIbn Khaldun (1332 1406) was one of the most remarkable Muslim scholars of the pre modern period. He founded what he called the science of human society or social organization, as well as a new methodology for writing history and a new purpose for it, namely to understand the causes of events. While his ideas had little impact on the development of Muslim thought for several centuries, they hugely impressed European thinkers from the nineteenth century