The introduction to Ibn Khaldun's universal history, which pioneers the study of society itself. Its concept of asabiyyah (social cohesion) makes it a founding text of sociology and historiography.
Sources for Ibn Khaldun — Muqaddimah
Ibn Khaldun — Muqaddimah in History
Held in the History chamber of the Babel Nexus Index.
- Herodotus — The Histories (−440)
- Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War (−400)
- Polybius — The Histories (−150)
- Sima Qian — Records of the Grand Historian (−94)
- Tacitus — Annals (110)
- Julius Caesar — The Gallic Wars (−50)
- Livy — The History of Rome (Ab Urbe Condita) (−27)
- Tacitus — Germania (98)
- Suetonius — The Lives of the Twelve Caesars (121)
- Gibbon — The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776)
- Macaulay — The History of England (1848)
- Parkman — France and England in North America (1865)