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This prolegomenon was written in the 14th century by the Arab scholar Ibn Khaldūn, & laid the intellectual foundations for philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography & economics. This translation was first published in 1958 in three volumes.
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This was quite a long slog. Parts were very interesting, other parts were more outdated. I was hoping to get more out of this book than I actually did.
That being said, this is an incredible book given the time at which it was written. Parts are perfectly applicable to our modern world, even after more than 700 years. I had no idea that some of these scholarly disciplines were so advanced in the 1300's.