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Ibn Khaldūn

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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The Father of History

Brenk: History should explore the social moras, politics and other factors that led events to progress in a certain way. Brenk: iben caldoun is called the father of historiography, one of at least three disciplines that he has often credited as starting. He thought that the purpose of history was not just to document what happend, but to understand why societies rise and fall.

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