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Ibn Khaldun  

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  • Ibn Khaldün al Hadrami was a great Arab historian and philosopher of history and social sciences. Compared in the West to Thucydides and Machiavelli, he developed a theory of world history embedded in sociology, social psychology, demography, and cultural ecology. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Ibn Khaldün (AD 1331–1406)]

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