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Practice these MCQs in the appQuick fact: Ibn Khuldun, the famous Muslim historian and thinker, was born in Tunisia.
Ibn Khuldun (1332–1406 CE) was born in Tunis, present-day Tunisia, into an Andalusian family that had migrated to North Africa. He is widely regarded as the father of historiography and sociology, and his magnum opus, the Muqaddimah, laid the foundations for the philosophy of history and social sciences. His work remains influential in both Islamic and Western academic traditions.
Ibn Khuldun's full name was Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khuldun al-Hadrami. Though his family originally hailed from Seville in Muslim Spain (Andalusia), they migrated to Tunisia after the Christian Reconquista. He served in various political and diplomatic roles across North Africa and later in Mamluk Egypt, where he also served as a chief judge. His groundbreaking work Kitab al-Ibar and its introductory volume, the Muqaddimah, introduced a systematic approach to studying history based on social, economic, and political factors.
