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

Khaldun, Ibn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691120544 ISBN 13: 9780691120546

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2004

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 Khaldūn (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.

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Review:

From review of Princeton's original edition: "[N. J. Dawood] has, by skillful abridgement and deft but unobtrusive editing, produced an attractive and manageable volume, which should make the essential ideas of Ibn Khaldūn accessible to a wide circle of readers."--Times Literary Supplement

From review of Princeton's original edition: "Undoubtedly the greatest work of its kind that has ever been created by any mind in any time or place . . . the most comprehensive and illuminating analysis of how human affairs work that has been made anywhere."--Arnold J. Toynbee, Observer

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0691120544
• ISBN 13: 9780691120546
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 504