what is the Muqaddimah? what is your review?

Answer 1

The Muqaddimah, or the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun (Arabic: مقدّمة ابن خلدون), records an early Muslim view of 'universal history'. Many modern thinkers view it as one of the first works of sociology. The Arab historian Ibn Khaldun wrote the work in 1377 as the preface or first book of his planned world history, the kitab al-ibar but already in his lifetime it became regarded as an independent work.

for review follow this
"All records, by their very nature, are liable to error...

...Partisanship towards a creed or opinion...
...Over-confidence in one's sources...
...The failure to understand what is intended...
...A mistaken belief in the truth...
...The inability to place an event in its real context
...The common desire to gain favor of those of high ranks, by praising them, by spreading their fame...
...The most important is the ignorance of the laws governing the transformation of human society."


for detial go to
http://www.muslimphilosophy.com/ik/Muqaddimah/TransIntro/TheMuqaddimah.htm

Answer 2

Muqaddimah means filing of petition in the Court of Law and fighting. An another muqaddimah is there which means, a foreword writes by any famous personality in favour of the writer of the book.

Answer 3

Kitab, kitab where is my kitab,
on the shelf with Gibbons
any time I look up.
History plays out raw
and likely
to repeat,
remainsregarded blankly
by those who call themselves
aesthete.

Answer 4

i donot know more about this