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Books like The Muqaddimah
The best books like The Muqaddimah are Guns, Germs, and Steel, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and The Lessons of History. The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun is about civilization, political cycles, social cohesion. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Jared Diamond · Science
Guns, Germs, and Steel is Jared Diamond's attempt to answer a question posed to him by a Papua New Guinean politician named Yali: why did Europeans end up with so much cargo — wealth, technology, power — while other peoples had comparatively little?
Both dig into civilization.
Read the summary → - Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari · History
Sapiens traces the full arc of human history from the emergence of Homo sapiens in Africa roughly 70,000 years ago to the present.
Both dig into civilization.
Read the summary → - The Lessons of History
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Will & Ariel Durant · History
The Lessons of History is the Durants' distillation of their eleven-volume The Story of Civilization — a project that consumed forty years — into a slim, hundred-page essay.
A kindred history read.
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- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Edward Gibbon · History
Edward Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published in six volumes between 1776 and 1789, is one of the monuments of historical writing in English.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
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The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Samuel P. Huntington · History
Samuel Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, published in 1996, is an expansion of a 1993 Foreign Affairs essay that generated more response than almost any article in that journal's history.
A kindred history read.
Read the summary → - Civilized to Death
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Christopher Ryan · Science
Christopher Ryan is the co-author of Sex at Dawn, a 2010 book that argued human beings are not naturally monogamous.
Both dig into civilization.
Read the summary → - Competitive Strategy
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Michael E. Porter · Business
Competitive Strategy is Michael Porter's foundational framework for analyzing industries and developing competitive strategy.
Both dig into economics.
Read the summary → - Cosmos
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Carl Sagan · Science
Cosmos is Carl Sagan's attempt to tell the full story of the universe and humanity's place in it — from the Big Bang to the origins of life to the rise of science as a way of knowing.
Both dig into civilization.
Read the summary → - Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
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Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb · Business
Power and Prediction is the second book from Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb — the economists behind Prediction Machines — and it takes a more pointed look at what cheap AI-driven prediction actually disrupts.
Both dig into economics.
Read the summary → - The Ageless Generation: How Advances in Biomedicine Will Transform the Global Economy
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The Ageless Generation: How Advances in Biomedicine Will Transform the Global Economy
Alex Zhavoronkov · Science
Alex Zhavoronkov's argument in The Ageless Generation is straightforward but sweeping: advances in regenerative medicine, genomics, and AI-driven drug discovery are converging in ways that will significantly extend healthy human lifespan within the next few decades, and the economic and social systems of every developed nation are entirely unprepared for that outcome.
Both dig into economics.
Read the summary → - The Clock of the Long Now
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Stewart Brand · Philosophy
The Clock of the Long Now is Stewart Brand's case for thinking at a civilizational scale rather than a quarterly one.
Both dig into civilization.
Read the summary → - The Second Machine Age
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Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee · Economics
The Second Machine Age is Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee's argument that digital technology has entered a qualitatively new phase — one in which machines can perform cognitive tasks previously reserved for humans, creating economic disruption and opportunity simultaneously.
Both dig into economics.
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Books like The Muqaddimah: quick answers
What are the best books like The Muqaddimah?
The best books like The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun are Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with The Muqaddimah, such as civilization, political cycles, social cohesion.
What should I read after The Muqaddimah?
A natural next read after The Muqaddimah is Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond. Both dig into civilization. Other strong choices are Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon.
What books are similar to The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun?
The Muqaddimah centers on civilization, political cycles, social cohesion. Books with a similar feel include Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order by Samuel P. Huntington, Civilized to Death by Christopher Ryan — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
