The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition
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By Ibn Khaldûn, N. J. Dawood (Editor), Franz Rosenthal (Translator), Bruce B. Lawrence (Introduction)
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The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of Arabic literature Franz Rosenthal, was publis...






















