The Introduction of Ibn Kholdoon

Al-Muqaddimah is a book written by Ibn Khaldun in the year 1377 AD as an introduction to his huge encyclopedic book, Kitab al-Ibr. The introduction was later considered a separate book of an encyclopedic nature, in which it deals with all fields of knowledge from Sharia, history, geography, economics, urbanism, sociology, politics and medicine. In it, he dealt with human conditions and the differences in their natures and the environment and its impact on man. He also studied the development of nations and peoples, the emergence of the state and the reasons for its collapse, focusing on the interpretation of this on the concept of asabiyyah. With this book Ibn Khaldun preceded other thinkers to many opinions and ideas until he was considered a founder of sociology, preceded by that French philosopher Auguste Comte