Birth: Ibn Khaldun

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1. Birth: Ibn Khaldun — 1332 CE · 732 AH

   Abd al-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami, author of the Muqaddima and the Kitab al-'Ibar (d. 808 AH) .

2. Ibn Khaldun completes the Muqaddima — 1377 CE · 779 AH

   Ibn Khaldun finished composing the Muqaddima in five months, by the middle of 779 AH, then revised it and added the histories of the Arabs and Berbers as the Kitab al-'Ibar .

3. Ibn Khaldun's Audience with Timur beneath Damascus — c. January 1401 CE · 803 AH

   Ibn Khaldun's own account: summoned into Faraj's retinue mid-Rabi' I 803, racing the Tatars to Damascus, then — fearing a rumor and hearing Timur had asked after him — lowered from the city wall at dawn to Timur's deputy Shah Malik, and brought to the conqueror reclining among his dishes and seated Mughul circles, with the Khwarazmian faqih Abd al-Jabbar translating; Timur raised his head, extended his hand to be kissed, and asked how and why he had come from the Maghreb .

4. Death: Ibn Khaldun — 1406 CE · 808 AH

   Abd al-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami, author of the Muqaddima and the Kitab al-'Ibar (d. 808 AH) .