This man declined an offer to return his family's ancestral holdings in Seville while serving as a diplomat to Pedro the Cruel.
This man declined an offer to return his family's ancestral holdings in Seville while serving as a diplomat to Pedro the Cruel. In a later diplomatic effort, he negotiated the safe passage of the besieged Damascenes. In one work, he cited the Biblical account of Moses's army as an example of historical information that, if accepted blindly, leaves one "lost in the desert of baseless assumptions and errors." In that treatise he listed failures to place events in their social context and account for changes in social customs as two of the seven errors of historians, and used the concept of "group feeling" or ‘asabiyah to account for the development of large states. FTP, name this man whose unfinished History of the World opens with the Muqaddimah, an Arab historian from Tunisia.
This man declined an offer to return his family's ancestral holdings in Seville while serving as a diplomat to Pedro the Cruel.
{Ibn Khaldun} or Wali al-Din 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad