The Muqaddimah is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the renowned fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics.

Ibn Khaldûn
Translated and introduced by Franz Rosenthal
Edited and abridged by N.J. Dawood
With a new introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence