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PERSON

Abū Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khaldūn al-Tūnisī al-Ḥaḍramī al-Ishbilī al-Mālikī

Name (arabic)

أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمّد بن خلدون التونسي الحضرمي الإشبيلي المالكي
Name (translit)

Abū Zayd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khaldūn al-Tūnisī al-Ḥaḍramī al-Ishbīlī al-Mālikī
Alias

Ibn Khaldūn
Born

1332 CE/ 0732 AH
Flourished

Died

1406 CE/ 0808 AH
Born in

Tunis
Lived in

Seville
Egypt
Algeria
Tlemcen
Cairo
Tunis
Fez
Died in

Cairo
Role

Historian
Physician
Diplomat
Notes

The famous historian, philosopher, pedagogue, and physician; worked in Tunis, Fez, Granada, Bougia, TIemcen, Cairo; he was the ambassador of the king of Granada to Petrus the Cruel in Seville.
Number in MAMS

771
ismi_id

8975

Authored Works

2 works:

Categorization of the Sciences

Muqaddima (Ibn Khaldūn) , مقدمة ابن خلدون

OTHER

Kitāb al-ʿibar wa-dīwān al-mubtadaʾ wa-al-khabar fī ayyām al-ʿarab wa-al-ʿajam wa-al-barbar wa-man ʿāṣarahum min ẕawī al-sulṭān al-akbar , كتاب العبر وديوان المبتدأ والخبر في أيّام العرب والعجم والبربر ومن عاصرهم من ذوي السلطان الأكبر

References

Rosenthal, Franz. 2008. “Ibn Khaldūn”. In Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, 7:320-23. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner’s Sons.
Rozenfeld, Boris, and Ekmeleddin İhsanoğlu. 2003. Mathematicians, Astronomers and Other Scholars of Islamic Civilisation and Their Works (7th-19th c.). Istanbul: Research Centre for Islamic History, Art, and Culture.

P. 260 (no. 771).

Brockelmann, Carl. 1996. Geschichte Der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL). 5 vol. Leiden; New York: E. J. Brill.

Vol. II, p. 314-317.

Matvievskaya, Galina, and Boris Rozenfeld. 1983. Matematiki I Astronomy Musulmanskogo Srednevekovya I Ikh Trudi, VIII-XVII Vv [Mathematicians and Astronomers of the Muslim Middle Ages and Their Works, VIII-XVII Centuries]. 3 vol. Moscow: Nauka.

Vol. II, p. 467.

Suter, Heinrich. 1981. Die Mathematiker Und Astronomen Der Araber Und Ihre Werke. Amsterdam: APA; Oriental Press.

Pp. 169-170.

Krachkovsky, Ignaty. 1957. “Arabskaya Geograficheskaya Literatura”. In Izbrannye Sochineniya. Vol. 4. Moscow-Leningrad.

P. 431-438.

Leclerc, Lucien. 1876. Histoire De La médecine Arabe: Exposé Complet Des Traductions Du Grec; Les Sciences En Orient, Leur Transmission à l’Occident Par Les Traductions Latines. 2 vol. Paris: E. Leroux.

Vol. II, p. 288-289.

Khalifa, Hajji. 1835. Hajji Khalifa. Kashf Al-ẓunūn ʿan asāmī Al-Kutub waʾl-funūn = Lexicon Bibliographicum Et Encyclopaedicum a Mustafa Ben Abdallah Katib Jelebi Dicto Et Nomine Haji Khalfa Celebrato Compositum. Ed. Gustav Flügel. 7 vol. Leipzig-London: R. Bentley for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland.

Vol. II, p. 101, 115, 168, 584, 656; vol. III, p. 35, 50, 70, 89, 93-94, 169, 350; vol. IV, p. 183; vol. VI, p. 71, 557.

Sarton, George. Introduction to the History of Science. 3 vols. in 5 vol. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, for the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

Vol. III, p. 1767-1779.