Algeria's Khalduniyya School

[Ibn Khaldun]

The Khalduniyya School... commemorating the shrine of Ibn Khaldun in the city Tlemcen, Algeria

The Khalduniyya School, which was built in memory of the three years that Ibn Khaldun spent in Tlemcen before moving to the city of Tiaret, where he retreated to write al-muqaddima. In Tlemcen inspired the historian Ibn Khaldun to draft some of his writings, especially al-Muqaddima’s section on urbanization.

 

Tlemcen played an effective role in building the edifice of civilization in the Islamic Maghreb region, and this was evident in several fields, such as fine arts such as music, especially after the Andalusians came with their arts, such as architectural art, in which the Zayan sultans showed great interest through the construction of palaces, mosques, schools, and walls. The most prominent architectural monument preserved in Tlemcen is al-Mashwar, the palace of government during the Zayani era.