| Title | The Muqaddimah
an introduction to history Ibn Khaldun's Prolegomena |
|---|---|
| Original title | مقدّمة ابن خلدون |
| Author | Ibn Khaldun; transl. from the Arabic by Franz Rosenthal; abridged & ed. by N. J. Dawood |
| Publication | Routledge |
| Size | XIV, 465p |
| Language | ENG |
| ISBN | 071008904X |
| Topics |
History--Philosophy and theory Historiography--Islamic |
| Notes | an early view of universal history, written in 1377 by the Arab Ifriqiyan Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun. Some modern thinkers view it as the first work dealing with the philosophy of history or the social sciences of sociology, demography, historiography, cultural history, social darwinism, ecology, darwinism and economics. The Muqaddimah also deals with Islamic theology, political theory and the natural sciences of biology and chemistry. [wikipedia] |