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Islam and Sufism

The Muqaddimah

An Introduction to History

by Ibn Khaldun · Franz Rosenthal (trans.)

The complete English translation, in three volumes, of the fourteenth-century North African scholar's introduction to history. Besides its famous theory of the rise and fall of dynasties, it surveys the sciences of the time, including sorcery, talismans and the science of letters.

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