Provides an insight into the views of a Berber-Arab Muslim of his period on the superiority of Islam and the workings of historical forces as understood in the period. ( )

A philosophical text on the uses and meaning of the study of history, written in 1377. It includes historical descriptions as well. Ibn Khaldun was an Andalusian who moved to the Maghrib after the fall of Seville to the Spanish. He spent the last 20 years of his life in Egypt.

This edition is an abridgement of the three-volume set translated from Arabic by Franz Rosenthal.