The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition (Princeton Classics #111)

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 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.

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2015

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ISBN-13:

9781400866090

Related ISBNs:

9780691120546, 9780691099460, 9780691017549, 9780691166285

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

Date of Addition:

03/31/20

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Princeton University Press

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No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

N. J. Dawood

Introduction by:

Bruce B. Lawrence

Translator:

Franz Rosenthal