The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Volume 3 - Ibn Khaldun

The Muqaddimah (ألمقدمة) , 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.