The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History (Unabridged Edition, Volume 3)

Volume three of the classic Islamic history of the world, now available to a new generation of readers in a fully unabridged edition

Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn, The Muqaddimah, or “Introduction,” is the earliest critical study of history. Though intended as the preface and first book of a world history, it is a wholly self-contained work, one that laid the foundations for fields of knowledge ranging from the philosophy of history to sociology and ethnogr...