The neutral tone of this work, extolled in an early section about bias and the "seven errors" made by a certain profession, is somewhat abandoned in sections criticizing Geber as a fraud and espousing the author's Ashari beliefs on jurisprudence.
This work curiously precedes its denunciations of pseudosciences with an astonishingly long exposition on "letter magic," and it warns against the rise of organized groups out the outer boundaries of an empire's reach, since they are closer to their nomadic origins and more apt to generate new factional loyalty. The neutral tone of this work, extolled in an early section about bias and the "seven errors" made by a certain profession, is somewhat abandoned in sections criticizing Geber as a fraud and espousing the author's Ashari beliefs on jurisprudence. Variable taxation returns and a labor theory of value are discussed in its economics-centered fifth chapter, while its sixth and final book argues for the use of scientific rigor and warns against the influence of compounded sensationalism, citing pervasive accounts of physically impossible military statistics. This work espouses that the pivotal force in human development is the bond of social cohesiveness it dubs asabiyyah, and its name derives from its role as an introduction to its author's longer historical record. Translated into Greek as the Prolegomena, FTP, identify this fourteenth century work regarded as a major forerunner of historiography and sociology, written by Muslim thinker Ibn Khaldun.
This work curiously precedes its denunciations of pseudosciences with an astonishingly long exposition on "letter magic," and it warns against the rise of organized groups out the outer boundaries of an empire's reach, since they are closer to their nomadic origins and more apt to generate new factional loyalty.
The {Muqaddimah} [accept {Prolegomena} before mentioned; prompt on synonyms like “{prologue}” or “{introduction};” prompt on {Book} of {Advice} or {Book} of {Evidence} or {Kitab al}-{Ibar}]