The Muqaddimah, Abridged edition Edition

“Ibn Khaldun, the great 14th-century Arab scholar, is the most authoritative and most beguiling of Arabic polymaths… His learning and ideas have an astonishingly modern relevance. His encyclopaedic work is a wonderfully readable mixture of history, sociology, ethnography, economics, science, art, literature, cookery, and medicine.”–Iain Finlayson, Times “[The] most remarkable book written during the entire Middle Ages, one of the great intellectual achievements of all time.”–Virginia Quarterly Review From review of Princeton’s original edition: “[N. J. Dawood] has, by skillful abridgement and deft but unobtrusive editing, produced an attractive and manageable volume, which should make the essential ideas of Ibn Khaldun accessible to a wide circle of readers.”–Times Literary Supplement From review of Princeton’s original edition: “Undoubtedly the greatest work of its kind that has ever been created by any mind in any time or place … the most comprehensive and illuminating analysis of how human affairs work that has been made anywhere.”–Arnold J. Toynbee, Observer