374 pages
Arabic language
Published 1983 by Dār wa-Maktabat al-Hilāl.
wa-huwa al-juzʼ al-awwal min Kitāb al-ʻibar wa-dīwān al-mubtadaʼ wa-al-khabar fī ayyām al-ʻArab wa-al-ʻAjam wa-al-Barbar wa-man ʻāṣarahum min dhawī al-sulṭān al-akbar
This prolegomenon was written in the 14th century by the Arab scholar Ibn Khaldūn, & laid the intellectual foundations for philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography & economics. This translation was first published in 1958 in three volumes.