About the book
Written by the 14th-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun, the Muqaddimah was planned as the introduction and first book of his universal history, the Kitab al-Ibar, but came to be read as a work in its own right. It opens with a critique of the errors historians commit, from partisanship and overconfidence in sources to ignorance of the laws that govern how societies change. Against that last failing, Ibn Khaldun sets out a new science of human society, touching on politics, urban life, economics, theology and knowledge. Some modern thinkers see it as a founding text of sociology and cultural history. This edition is Franz Rosenthal's abridged English translation, with an introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence.
Mark Zuckerberg described it as a history of the world by a 14th-century intellectual, tracing how cities, politics, commerce and science take shape, and found its worldview interesting even where later progress has disproved it.
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Mark Zuckerberg (CEO/Facebook)
It's a history of the world written by an intellectual who lived in the 1300s. It focuses on how society and culture flow, including the creation of cities, politics, commerce and science.
While much of what was believed then is now disproven after 700 more years of progress, it's still very interesting to see what was understood at this time and the overall worldview when it's all considered together.
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