Ibn Khaldun ابن خلدون
historian · Tunis · Cairo · 1332–1406
A historian who looked for the laws by which dynasties rise and fall. At seventeen he lost his parents and teachers to the Black Death.
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1377 · Looking back on the Black Death of twenty-eight years before
In the middle of this eighth century (of the Hijra), civilization in East and West was struck by a sweeping plague that laid nations waste and carried off the people of a generation. It folded up and wiped out much of the good that civilization had made.
نزل بالعمران شرقا وغربا في منتصف هذه المائة الثامنة من الطاعون الجارف الذي تحيف الأمم وذهب بأهل الجيل وطوى كثيرا من محاسن العمران ومحاهاThe Muqaddimah, introduction
1377
It was as if the voice of existence had called on the world to sink into obscurity and shrink, and the world had hurried to answer.
وكأنما نادى لسان الكون في العالم بالخمول والانقباض فبادر بالإجابةThe Muqaddimah, introduction
1377
The conquered are always in love with imitating the conqueror, in his emblems, his dress, his beliefs and all his ways and customs.
المغلوب مولع أبدا بالاقتداء بالغالب في شعاره وزيه ونحلته وسائر أحواله وعوائدهThe Muqaddimah, the title of a chapter
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