Muqaddimah
The Muqaddimah, also known as the 'Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun' (Arabic: مقدّمة ابن خلدون) or 'Ibn Khaldun's Prolegomena' (Ancient Greek: ἡ Προλεγόμενα), is a book written by the Ifriqiyan Muslim Arab historian Ibn Khaldun in 1377 which records an early view of universal history.
Description
The Muqaddimah concerns a wide range of issues: 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.
Ibn Khaldun wrote the work in 1377 as the introduction chapter and the first book of his planned work of world history, the Kitābu l-ʻibar ("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.
See also
External links
- Muqaddimah @ Wikipedia
- Complete text of Muqaddimah
