The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition (Princeton Classics, 13)

The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is a monumental work that established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics.

Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d.

1406), this book has received immediate acclaim in the United States and abroad since its first complete English translation in 1958.

This Princeton Classics edition of the abridged version includes Rosenthal's original introduction as well as a contemporary introduction by Bruce B.

Lawrence, making it accessible to twenty-first century audiences.

With an astonishingly modern relevance, Ibn Khaldûn's encyclopaedic work is a wonderfully readable mixture of history, sociology, ethnography, economics, science, art, literature, cookery, and medicine.

Don't miss out on this seminal work of Islam and medieval and ancient history!