Ibn Khaldun was a scholar from North Africa born in the 14th century. He is most renowned for his work "Muqaddimah," where he out the foundations of several social sciences. Khaldun challenged how history was recorded, arguing that it should be based on societal trends and common patterns, not just stories of leaders and battles. He concepts like "Asabiyyah," which is the social cohesion that keeps a society together, and discussed how economies and societies evolve over time. Khaldun's ideas were of their time, influencing not just the Islamic world but also later European thinkers. the breadth of his work, Ibn Khaldun isn't as widely known in the historical narrative as some of his contemporaries or successors, mainly because his work was not widely translated, circulated, or appreciated by the dominant political and intellectual forces of his time.