The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition Contributor(s): Khaldûn, Ibn (Author), Dawood, N. J. (Editor), Rosenthal, Franz (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0691166285 ISBN-13: 9780691166285 Publisher: Princeton University Press OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Civilization - Philosophy | History & Surveys - General - Social Science | Islamic Studies |
Dewey: 901 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.6" (1.10 lbs) 512 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) - Cultural Region - Arab World - Religious Orientation - Islamic |
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Publisher Description: 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 Khald n (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the 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 the United States and abroad. A one-volume abridged version of Rosenthal's masterful translation first appeared in 1969. This Princeton Classics edition of the abridged version includes Rosenthal's original introduction as well as a contemporary introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence. This volume makes available a seminal work of Islam and medieval and ancient history to twenty-first century audiences. |