Arab historian. Abū Zayd ՙAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn Khaldūn (ihbn kahl-DOON) was born in North Africa to a respected family of Muslim public servants and intellectuals. The Khaldūn clan, believed to have resided in Andalusia, Spain, since the eighth century, had left the Iberian Peninsula and settled in Tunis shortly before the last stage of the Christian Reconquest of much of Muslim Andalusia in the mid-thirteenth century.

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