The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition (Bollingen Series, 422)

The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition (Bollingen Series, 422) image
ISBN-10:

0691099464

ISBN-13:

9780691099460

Author(s): Khaldūn, Ibn
Edition: Revised
Released: Jun 21, 1981
Format: Hardcover, 1744 pages
to view more data

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 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.











We're an Amazon Associate. We earn from qualifying purchases at Amazon and all stores listed here.