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Ibn Khaldun (/ˈɪbən kælˈduːn/; Arabic: أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي‎, Abū Zayd ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad ibn Khaldūn al-Ḥaḍramī; 27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406) was an Arab historiographer and historian. He is claimed as a forerunner of the modern disciplines of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography.[n 1][n 2]

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The term of life of a dynasty does not normally exceed three generations. For in the first generation are still preserved the characteristic features of rough, uncivilized rural life, such as hard conditions of life, courage, ferocity, and partnership in authority. Therefore the strength of the 'Asabiya is maintained.

Asabiya, Features, Firsts, History, Rural, Rural Life

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

Ancestor, Ancestors, Child, Children, Customs, Men

The easiest method of acquiring the habit of scholarship is through acquiring the ability to express oneself clearly in discussing and disputing scholarly problems. This is what clarifies their import and makes them understandable. Some students spend most of their lives attending scholarly sessions. Still, one finds them silent. They do not talk and do not discuss matters. More than is necessary, they are concerned with memorizing. Thus, they do not obtain much of a habit in the practice of scholarship and scholarly instruction.

Matter, Necessary, Practice, Sessions, Students, Understandable

When incentive to acquire and obtain property is gone, people no longer make efforts to acquire any. . . Those who infringe upon property rights commit an injustice. . . If this occurs repeatedly, all incentives to cultural enterprise are destroyed and they cease utterly to make an effort. This leads to destruction and ruin of civilization.

Civilization, Efforts, Enterprise, Leads, Rights, Wisdom

The Berbers belong to a powerful, formidable, and numerous people; a true people like so many others, the world has seen - like the Arabs, the Persians, the Greeks and the Romans.

Berbers, Greek, People, Powerful, True, World

Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.

Arranged, Enlightens, Errors, Fall, Knows, Math

All the sciences came to exist in Arabic. The systematic works on them were written in Arabic writing.

Arabic, Exist, Sciences, Systematic, Writing, Written

Beyond [known peoples of black West Africa] to the south there is no civilization in the proper sense. There are only humans who are closer to dumb animals than to rational beings. They live in thickets and caves, and eat herbs and unprepared grain. They frequently eat each other. They cannot be considered human beings.

Animal, Civilization, Dumb, Frequently, Herbs, Rational

Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right

Enlightlens, Geometry, Math, Mind, Sets

The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.

Drop, Drop Of Water, Future, Past, Resembles, Water

The sciences of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated through Al-Ma'mun's efforts. He was successful in this direction because he had many translators at his disposal and spent much money in this connection.

Effort, Greek, Money, Successful, Translated, Translators

He who finds a new path is a pathfinder, even if the trail has to be found again by others; and he who walks far ahead of his contemporaries is a leader, even though centuries pass before he is recognized as such.

Century, Leader, Path, Trail, Walks

Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.

Civilization, Goal, Mean, Sedentary

Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself.

Commits, Government, Injustice, Institutions

Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.

Animal, Dumb, Slavery, Submissive

People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species.

Ignorant, Interest, Largely, People, Species