Dear Susan,
> Unfortunately Ibn Khaldun's masterpiece did not have much of
> an impact on how people wrote history subsequently.
But it had a great impact on how people wrote. A number of other great
literary works attempted to model after the magnificent prose of Ibn
Khaldun, a work which he titled Muqaddimih (preamble). For instance, Mirza
Abu'l-Fadl's masterpiece -- a long lost work that only recently came to
surface -- titled "Faslu'l-Khatab" (published in 1995 in Canada), is very
much modeled after the Muqaddimih.
As Ibn Khalidum explains, the Muqaddimih was never intended to be the
actual history, but a discussion of historical methodology. It was a
preamble to a much larger project which never got off the ground. However,
he wrote with such care that by itself it emerge as a standard literary
text read by anyone interested in the classics.
By the way it's available in English, though I don't recall the
translator(s).
Regards,
ahang.
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