Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History · Volume I
Reading companion and full text of the Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History, Volume I, translated by Franz Rosenthal and published as Bollingen Series XLIII (Pantheon Books, 1958) — the first volume of the first complete English translation of Ibn Khaldun's fourteenth-century introduction to universal history, which established the foundations of the philosophy of history, sociology, and the comparative study of human civilizations.