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.

The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History

History

Ibn Khaldūn

Ancient Civilizations

Princeton Univ Press (Bollingen Series)

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.

The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History (Bollingen)

Princeton University Press

Ibn Khaldūn: Political Thought (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Cambridge University Press

The Muqaddimah, also known as the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun or Ibn Khaldun's Prolegomena was written by the Arab, North African Muslim historian Ibn Khaldun in 1377 which records an early view of universal history. Some modern thinkers view it as the first work dealing with the philosophy of history or the social sciences of sociology, demography, historiography, cultural history, and economics. The Muqaddimah also deals with Islamic theology, political theory and the natural sciences of biology and chemistry. The Muqaddimah is also held to be a foundational work for the schools of historiography, cultural history, and the philosophy of history and it laid the groundwork for the observation of the role of state, communication, propaganda and systematic bias in history.

Al Muqaddimah: Prolegomena (Arabic Edition)

Middle East

JiaHu Books

Ibn Khaldun (May 27, 1332 AD/732 AH – March 19, 1406 AD/808 AH) was an Arab Muslim historiographer and historian, regarded to be among the founding fathers of modern historiography, sociology and economics. He is best known for his book The Muqaddimah. The book influenced 17th-century Ottoman historians who used the theories in the book to analyze the growth and decline of the Ottoman Empire. 19th-century European scholars also acknowledged the significance of the book and considered Ibn Khaldun as one of the greatest philosophers to come out of the Muslim world. This volume includes his fascinating autobiogrpahy covering his legendary travels.

The Autobiography of Ibn Khaldun (Arabic Edition)

Biographies & Memoirs

Travelers & Explorers

Le Livre des Exemples tome 1 - autobiographie - Muqaddima [Bibliotheque de la Pleiade] (French Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Ibn Khaldoun

Genre Fiction

French and European Publications Inc

Le Livre des Exemples (Tome 2-Histoire des Arabes et des Berberes du Maghreb (French Edition)

French & European Pubns

Coffret discours sur l'histoire universelle 3vols: - CARTES, NOTES ET INDEX (SINDBAD)

Europe

Actes-sud

Die Muqaddima

Religion & Spirituality

Islam

Beck C. H.

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