The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition Ibn Khaldûn The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern ...

Arnold Toynbee used to say that Ibn Khaldūn's work was the most impressive endeavour to build a theory out of history ever undertaken before the nineteenth century. However, translators and historians ...

Ibn Khaldun, 8th century Tunisian historian. The Berber people had a particularly interesting role to play in the Maghreb. They alternately resisted and accepted new beliefs and political regimes ...

THE role of the individual in history has been explored by historians and philosophers alike over the ages. Thucydides, Polybius, Tacitus, Abd al-Rahman Ibn Khaldun, Ahmed Ibn Fartuwa ...