The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition Ibn Khaldûn The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern ...

Ibn Khaldūn is one of the outstanding thinkers about the nature of society and politics in the pre-modern Arab world. This volume presents the political writings of the fourteenth-century philosopher, ...