The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Volume 1

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 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 published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series and received immediate acclaim in the United States and abroad.