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 ...