ibn Khaldun

American  

[ib-uhn khahl-doon] / ˌɪb ən xɑlˈdun /

noun

1. Abd-al-Rahman 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher.

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ibn-Khaldun British  

/ ˌɪbənˌkɑːlˈduːn /

noun

1. 1332–1406, Arab historian and philosopher. His Kitab al-`ibar ( Book of Examples ) is a history of Islam

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Example Sentences

The paper's lead author is former MIT postdoc and Ibn Khaldun Fellow Shahad Alsaiari.

From Science Daily

Arab historian Ibn Khaldun recalled with horror, “Civilization both in the East and the West was visited by a destructive plague which devastated nations and caused populations to vanish. It swallowed up many of the good things of civilization and wiped them out.’

From New York Times

Said would later refer to himself as a comparatist and was as enthralled with the medieval Arab historian Ibn Khaldun as he was with the Italian Enlightenment philosopher Giambattista Vico.

From New York Times

Because of this “destructive plague which devastated nations and caused populations to vanish,” the Arab historian Ibn Khaldun wrote, “the entire inhabited world changed.”

From New York Times

It is similar to what the 14th century historian Ibn Khaldun called asabiyya, an Arabic word with no exact translation, in part because it conveys something stronger than mere social solidarity.

From The Guardian