Muqaddimah
Khaldûn, Ibn / Dawood, N. J. / Lawrence, Bruce B. / Rosenthal, Franz
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.