The Muqaddimah by ibn khaldun

The Muqaddimah: an Introduction To History (the Classic Islamic History Of the World) (abridged Edition) ibn khaldun
The Muqaddimah by ibn khaldun

IMPORANT : Translation supposedly turned arab and berber into races and replaced the arabic word for bedouin with arab, if read correctly his view of arabs would be different and potentially more negative ? idk

“The 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 Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work laid down the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of Arabic literature Franz Rosenthal, was published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series and received immediate acclaim in America and abroad. A one-volume abridged version of Rosenthal’s masterful translation was first published by Princeton University Press in 1969.” “This new edition of the abridged version, with the addition of a key section of Rosenthal’s own introduction to the three-volume edition, and with a new introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence, will reintroduce this seminal work to twenty-first-century students and scholars of Islam and of medieval and ancient history.”–Jacket

This Princeton Classics edition of the abridged version includes Rosenthal s original introduction as well as a contemporary introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence. This volume makes available a seminal work of Islam and medieval and ancient history to twenty-first century audiences.