The Muqaddimah (Arabic: مقدّمة "Introduction"), also known as the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun (Arabic: مقدّمة ابن خلدون) or Ibn Khaldun's Prolegomena (Ancient Greek: Προλεγόμενα), is a book written by the historian Ibn Khaldun in 1377 which presents a view of universal history.[1] Some modern thinkers view it as the first work dealing with the social sciences of sociology,[2][3][4] demography,[3] and cultural history.[5] The Muqaddimah also deals with Islamic theology, historiography,[6] the philosophy of history,[2] economics,[7][8] political theory, and ecology.[9][10] It has also been described as a precursor or an early representative of social Darwinism,[11] and Darwinism.[clarification needed][12]
Ibn Khaldun wrote the work in 1377 as the introduction and the first book of his planned work of world history, the Kitab al-ʿIbar ("Book of Lessons"; full title: Kitābu l-ʻibari wa Dīwāni l-Mubtada' wal-Ḥabar fī ayāmi l-ʻarab wal-ʿajam wal-barbar, waman ʻĀsarahum min Dhawī sh-Shalṭāni l-Akbār, i.e.: "Book of Lessons, Record of Beginnings and Events in the history of the Arabs and Foreigners and Berbers and their Powerful Contemporaries"), but already in his lifetime it became regarded as an independent work on its own.
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The Muqaddimah (Arabic: مقدّمة "Introduction"), also known as the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun (Arabic: مقدّمة ابن خلدون) or Ibn Khaldun's Prolegomena (Ancient...
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October 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2017. Ibn Khaldūn (27 April 2015). The Muqaddimah : an introduction to history. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-16628-5...
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Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. Rosenthal, Franz; Ibn Khaldun (1967). The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-09797-8...
historiographical writings in the Muqaddimah (Latinized as Prolegomena) and Kitab al-Ibar (Book of Advice). His Muqaddimah also laid the groundwork for the...
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there. Primary and secondary considerations in this connection.". Al-Muqaddimah [An Introduction to History]. Bollingen series. Vol. 2. Translated by...
the writings of European contributors to modern sociology. Khaldun's Muqaddimah was considered to be amongst the first work to advance social-scientific...
(Geographica), Pliny, and Arrian (Indica). In the preface to his book, the Muqaddimah (1377), the Arab historian and early sociologist, Ibn Khaldun, warned...
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Retrieved 25 June 2023. Ibn Khaldun (1958). F. Rosenthal (ed.). The Muqaddimah (K. Ta'rikh – "History"). Vol. 3. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd....
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