Scholar · 1332 to 1406
Ibn Khaldun
Historian from Tunis whose Muqaddimah explains how dynasties rise and fall through asabiyya, group solidarity. He met Timur outside Damascus in 1401.
At a glance
- Lived
- 1332 to 1406
- Role
- Scholar
- Era
- The Mongol storm
- Chapter
- 3. The Abbasids, the Crusades and the Mongols
Ibn Khaldun's world
1260: The Mongol storm
Genghis Khan destroyed the Khwarazmian empire between 1219 and 1221. His grandson Hulagu took the fortress of Alamut in 1256 and Baghdad in February 1258. The last Abbasid caliph of Baghdad, al-Musta'sim, was put to death on Hulagu's orders, by most accounts rolled in a carpet and trampled.
People of the same era
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