The Muqaddimah An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition

"Government is an institution which prevents injustice other than such as it commits itself."

The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun

A visionary 14th-century work that laid the intellectual foundations for sociology, historiography, economics, and political theory. Ibn Khaldun explores how civilizations rise and fall through social cohesion (ʿasabiyyah), labor, governance, and the cyclical nature of power. This abridged Princeton Classics edition of Franz Rosenthal’s acclaimed translation brings timeless insights into human behavior, critical historical method, and the dynamics of society to modern readers.