Ibn Khaldun born in Tunis
1332
Into a family of Andalusian exiles displaced by the Reconquista, the future father of historiography arrived. He would grow up amid plague, dynastic collapse, and Bedouin raids, experiences that shaped his Muqaddimah - the first attempt to explain why civilizations rise and fall by sociological law rather than divine whim.
In context
Also in 1332 (4 other events on record)
- Plague breaks out in the Issyk-Kul region of Central Asia · Central Asia · Disaster
- Muhammad bin Tughlaq introduces token currency · South Asia · Politics
- Edward Balliol invades Scotland with English aid · Europe · War
- Shenzong of Yuan reorganizes Tibetan affairs · East Asia · Politics
Before and after in Africa
Before and after in Culture
Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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