''Lubābu l-Muhassal fi Usul al-Din'' (لباب المحصل في أصول الدين) is a book on

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by the scholar

Ibn Khaldūn Ibn Khaldun (27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406, 732–808 Hijri year, AH) was an Arabs, Arab Islamic scholar, historian, philosopher and sociologist. He is widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages, and cons ...

, written in around 1351 (752 AH).IBN JALDUN: STUDIES. Ibn Khaldun: the Mediterranean in the 14th century: rise and fall of Empires, Fundación José Manuel Lara. Fundación El legado andalusì, 2006. The book was Khaldūn's first work, written when he was 19 or 20 years old. ''Lubābu l-Muhassal'' is a commentary on ''Muhassal Afkar al-Mutaqaddimin wa al-Muta'akhkhirin'', a work on theology by

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. Khaldūn wrote the book under the supervision of his teacher al-Ābilī while living in

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.Khaldūn, Ibn, and Mohamed-Aziz Lahbabi. ''Ibn Khaldūn''. Seghers, 1970. Although Ibn Khaldūn had written the book in Tunis, it was only in manuscript form, however, it was undoubtedly prepared by Khaldūn sometime between 1372 (774 AH) and 1374 (776 AH), while living in

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. Both the later copies as well as the 1351 original manuscript are still extant, written in the author's handwriting. An English translation of Khaldūn's work, entitled ''Treatise in Logic'', was published in 1952. The book is thought to be something of an exam paper or final project for his master, Al-Abili; the book testifies to Ibn Khaldūn's early grasp of the philosophical and theological material of the '' Takhlis al-Muhassal'', a standard work of ''kalam''.

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, ''Ibn Khaldun: Life and Times''. 2011.

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