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...time such a pair of eclipses may be seen from one and the same location. Such was the case in the summer of ad 1433, but this occurrence caused some surprise to the contemporary Cairo chronicler al-Maqrīzī:
On Wednesday the 28th of Shawwāl [i.e., June 17], the Sun was eclipsed by about two-thirds in the sign of Cancer more than one hour after the afternoon...
Just as Ibn Khaldūn had no known predecessors in the history of Muslim thought, so he had no worthy successors. But he did make an impact on his students in Cairo, one of whom, al-Maqrīzī, showed an insight worthy of his master in analyzing the inflation that was rampant in his time and was the author of several voluminous works that cast much light on contemporary social...
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