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Works, testimonies and further readings are distinguished. Dates refer to composition or first publication, as specified in each entry.
These records cover the Muqaddimah, the Kitab al-ʿIbar and the autobiography. His youthful summary of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi’s theology, Lubab al-Muhassal, his treatise on Sufism, Shifaʾ al-saʾil, and his poems and letters are not indexed separately; this is a selection, not a complete bibliography.
011377
Ibn Khaldun drafted it in about five months at Qalʿat Ibn Salama in 1377 and kept revising it in Tunis and Cairo until his death. Copied in Cairo and later studied by Ottoman scholars, it was printed in Cairo in 1857 and in Paris in 1858, and then became central to European debates about the origins of sociology.
021377–1382
Begun after the Muqaddimah, a first version was presented to the Hafsid sultan in Tunis around 1382 and later expanded in Cairo with material on the East. Its account of the Berbers, drawn partly from his own experience and from informants, remains a basic source for the medieval Maghreb; de Slane translated it into French in 1852–1856.
031395–1405
First written as the closing section of the Kitab al-ʿIbar and carried down to 1395, it was later revised and extended to 1405, a year before his death. It is among the most detailed autobiographies in medieval Arabic, though it says far more about his public life than about his inner one; its last pages describe his meeting with Timur.