The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History history of political philosophy and in 395 or 396

and in 395 or 396 became Bishop of Hippo

by some of the leading scholars in Arabic philosophy

as well as regional native traditions

Barrett (Author)

The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History history of political philosophy and in 395 or 396The 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 Khaldn (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of Arabic