Ibn Khaldun

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Ibn Khal·dun

(kăl-do͞on′, KHäl-) 1332-1406.

Arab historian. His Muqaddimah (c. 1375) is an important work on the theory of history.

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The seminar was organised by QU's Gulf Studies Center in cooperation with the Ibn Khaldon Center for Humanities and Social Sciences.

Iranian Revolution in retrospect at QU seminar

A number of experts from within and outside Qatar University (QU) spoke on "The Iranian Revolution in Retrospect: The Internal, Regional and Global Impact" organised by QU's Gulf Studies Centre (GSC) in co-operation with the Ibn Khaldon Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences.

QU Gulf Studies Centre holds seminar on 'Iranian Revolution'

Moin grounds his decipherment of sacred kingship during sixteenth- through eighteenth-century India and Iran in the rise of Tlmur, especially Ibn KhaldOn's account of astronomical and astrological conjugation (pp.