Philosophy of History
Explore the Philosophy of History with our curated book list, featuring Ibn Khaldūn’s seminal The Muqaddimah. Delve into essential books on history and philosophy, uncovering timeless theories on civilization, historical cycles, and the meaning of the past.
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The Muqaddimah
by Ibn Khaldūn
The 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 Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work laid down the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of Arabic literature Franz Rosenthal, was published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series and received immediate acclaim in America and abroad. A one-volume abridged version of Rosenthal's masterful translation was first published in 1969. This new edition of the abridged version, with the addition of a key section of Rosenthal's own introduction to the three-volume edition, and with a new introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence, will reintroduce this seminal work to twenty-first-century students and scholars of Islam and of medieval and ancient history.
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Considerations on the causes of the greatness of the Romans and their decline
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Order and History (Volume 1): Israel and Revelation (Collected Works of Eric Voegelin, Volume 14)
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