Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldun completed

Literary/ Cultural Context Note

Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)
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This was the first attempt to understand the rise and fall of civilisation, forming the preface to a longer history of the Berbers and Arabs. Effectively in his account he established a new discipline: the science of culture.

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