Ibn Khaldun becomes a judge and a…

Ibn Khaldun becomes a judge and a prominent teacher of Islamic law in Egypt.

His Kitab al-'Ibar (Universal History) is a valuable source for the history of North Africa, but the celebrated introduction to the work, the “Muqaddimah,” is a brilliant exposition of the methodological and cultural knowledge necessary to produce a scientific history.

Interested primarily in the reasons for the rise and fall of human civilization, Ibn Khaldun argues that the basic causes of historical evolution are to be sought in the economic and social structure of society.