The science of history
His name was Ibn Khaldun. He lived from 1332 to 1406 in this our Common Era, which was the only thing common about him.
Descriptions bestowed on Ibn Khaldun, according to Eric Ormsby in the March 16 Wall Street Journal, include First Philosopher of History and father of sociology, among many another honorific. English historian Arnold J. Toynbee, who wrote the 12-volume A Study of History, replete with its own misapprehensions, described Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah ("Introduction" in Arabic) as "undoubtedly the greatest work of its kind that has
