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Also Known As Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar al-Wāqidī
Born 747 • Medina • Saudi Arabia
Died 823 (aged 76) • Baghdad • Iraq
Ibn Khaldūn
Ibn Khaldūn
Muslim historian
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al-Ṭabarī
Muslim scholar
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al-Masʿūdī
Arab historian
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Ibn al-Athīr
Arab historian
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al-Hamdānī
Arab author
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al-Balādhurī
Muslim historian
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al-Yaʿqūbī
Arab historian and geographer
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Alan Bullock
British historian
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François Furet
French historian
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Fritz Fischer
German historian
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Hendrik Willem Van Loon
American historian and illustrator
Karl Marx
Karl Marx
German philosopher
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Niccolò Machiavelli
Italian statesman and writer
David Hume
David Hume
Scottish philosopher
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault
French philosopher and historian
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Thucydides
Greek historian
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
German philosopher and mathematician
Tacitus
Tacitus
Roman historian
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Xenophon
Greek historian
Edward Gibbon
Edward Gibbon
British historian

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