The Muqaddimah - an Introduction To History (Abridged Ed) (Paper): An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition (Bollingen Series)

Khaldun, Ibn

ISBN 10: 0691017549 / ISBN 13: 9780691017549

Published by Bollingen Series; Princeton University Press, 1989

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Covers creased and edgeworn, ink marks and notes in first 35 pages of text - appears to stop at that point. Binding remains solid.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Muqaddimah - an Introduction To History (Abridged Ed) (Paper): An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition (Bollingen Series)
• Publisher: Bollingen Series; Princeton University Press
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691017549
• ISBN 13: 9780691017549
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Middle Eastern History
  • History

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Synopsis

The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn (d. 1406), this monumental work laid down the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of Arabic literature Franz Rosenthal, was published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series and received immediate acclaim in America and abroad. A one-volume abridged version of Rosenthal's masterful translation was first published in 1969.

This new edition of the abridged version, with the addition of a key section of Rosenthal's own introduction to the three-volume edition, and with a new introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence, will reintroduce this seminal work to twenty-first-century students and scholars of Islam and of medieval and ancient history.

Language Notes

Text: English, Arabic (translation)