This thinker, a longtime judge in Cairo, was a strong proponent of the concept of assabiya, or social solidarity.
This man once said that he had waited thirty or forty years to meet a man who had recently become prominent and called him "sultan of the world." This man's autobiography, the Tarif, contains an interview he had with Tamerlame to try and persuade him not to sack Damascus. This thinker, a longtime judge in Cairo, was a strong proponent of the concept of assabiya, or social solidarity. In his most famous work, he applied this concept to the rise and fall of dynasties or dawla, claiming that each civilization necessarily contains the means to its own downfall due to smaller social units being more cohesive, while development decentralizes state strength. This man's most famous work is the introduction of a universal history which he called Kitab al'Ibar. For 10 points, name this early historiographer best known for his Muqaddima, a medieval scholar from Tunisia.
This man once said that he had waited thirty or forty years to meet a man who had recently become prominent and called him "sultan of the world.
{Ibn Khaldun} [or Abu Zayd ‘Abdu r-Rahman bin Muhammad bin {Khaldun} Al-Hadrami]