The West first learned of Ibn Khaldun through Leo Africanus
Evidence
It was from Leo, for example, that the West learned about the importance of al-Hariri’s twelfth-century classic literary jeu d’esprit, the Maqamat, as well as the philosopher-historian Ibn Khaldun’s theoretical prolegomena to the study of history, the Muqaddima. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 121
Categorization
- SHARE: A fact for anyone interested in intellectual transfer chains — that Europe’s encounter with Ibn Khaldun was routed through a single Moorish informant in Rome.