Ibn Khalidoon, the fourteenth century father of modern historiography and sociology, is a great name in the history of human culture. Muslims and Non-Muslims alike have paid homage to the great heritage left by him. Of his famous Prolegomena (Muqaddima) Professor Arnold Toynbee in his: A study of history, III, P. 332. (London: Oxford University Press, 1935) says: "It is the greatest work of its kind that has yet been created by any mind in any time or ...