Arabic historiography · science of civilization · 1332–1406

Ibn Khaldun

Read history through the nature of human society.

Tunis · Fez · Cairo

Reading guides

A thread to guide your reading.

Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.

Follow how the Muqaddimah turns the criticism of historical reports into a science of human society built on solidarity, rule and economic life.

Read the Book of Lessons as a universal chronicle and as a test of the Muqaddimah’s theory, above all in its history of the Berber dynasties.

Explore the autobiography as a record of teachers, offices and journeys, and as a self-portrait shaped by the author of the Muqaddimah.

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