Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook /Books The Muqaddimah work of Ibn Khaldun (twitter)
Fcebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, put a book entitled The Muqaddimah the reading list. What is so special about this book?
Owner of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, put a book by a Muslim scientist Ibn Khaldun, as one of the obligatory reading. Entitled The Muqaddimah, Zuckerberg admitted impressed with this work.
Zuckerberg's decision is certainly welcomed netizen Muslims worldwide.
Citing businessinsider page, Thursday, June 4, 2015, Zuckerberg has indeed been staked resolution 2015 by reading important books every two weeks. This book will be discussed in the Facebook community.
In a reading club, A Year of Books, Zuckerberg simply select great works that are considered a big impact on society and business.
So far, Zuckerberg simply choose contemporary works. However, when choosing a new reading books, Zuckerberg chose works made around the year 1337.
Surprisingly, the book The Muqaddimah this is the work of a Muslim historian, Ibn Khaldun.
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Why this book is considered important for Zuckerberg?
The Muqaddimah which means the opening of an ordinary work trying to decipher the history and discover the universal values of humanity processes.
Ibn Khaldun's revolutionary scientific approach in researching the history has placed it as one of the great thinkers in modern sociology and history.
An influential British historian, Arnold Toynbee The Muqaddimah describe as philosophical work history.
"What is undeniable is the best work ever made of all time," to quote the Encyclopedia Britannica.
During this time the selected books Zuckerberg is often explored through the lens of sociology. No wonder why Zuckerberg this time chose a book by Ibn Khaldun.
Here are 11 books Mark Zuckerberg:
1. "The End of Power: From boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Is not What It Used to Be" by Moisés Naim
2. "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined" by Steven Pinker
3. "Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue sociologist Takes to the Streets" by Sud hir Venkatesh
4. "On Immunity: An inoculation" by Eula Biss
5. "Creativity, Inc .: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration" by Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
6. "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas S. Kuhn
7. "Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge" by Michael Chwe
8. "Dealing with China: An Insider unmasks the New Economic Superpower" by Henry M. Paulson
9. "Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest" by Peter Huber
10. "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander
11. "The Muqaddimah" by Ibn Khaldun
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