Mark Zuckerberg is reading Ibn Khaldun? Not quite.

I have written before about the need for a new English translation of Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah.  You can't read the devastating and most damning critique by A.L.Tibawi and accept the reliability of the translation by the Yale Orientalist, Franz Rosenthal.  I was reminded yet again with the news that Zuckerberg is reading Al-Muqaddimah.  Tibawi illustrated that Rosenthal failed to understand key terms and meanings in the Muqaddimah in his translation (see his book, Arabic and Islamic Themes).  So Zuckerberg is reading a mistranslation of the Muqaddimah.  Ibn Khaldun, of course, has long been favored by rightwingers in capitalist countries because he wrote that lower taxation increases incentives for productivity and prosperity.  Even Ronald Reagan cited Ibn Khaldun.