The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to HistoryThe 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 Khaldn (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

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introduced the now-famous expression of the title into the common vernacular

the logic of ordinary language and of the four language arts: reading

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their original meaning

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Muslim and non-Muslim alike

At the polemical level

witty voice is undimmed

the question of how the Africans organized their familial and communal lives to resist and assail it has not received adequate attention

offering a penetrating glimpse into how Islam deals with spiritual and psychological problems and demonstrating how all people can benefit from these teachings