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The Introduction |
An Introduction to History The Classic Islamic History of the World Translated and intorduced by Franz Rosenthal With a new introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence 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 Khaldun (d.1406), this monumental work laid down the foundations of several fields ofknowledge, including philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. Princeton University Press |