Ibn Khaldūn (Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages)
Early Life
Abu Zayd ʿAbd al-Rahman Ibn Khaldūn 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.
The successful advance of the Spanish Christian armies that displaced the Khaldūn family was one of many factors leading to political instability in the western Mediterranean,...
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