ISBN: 9780691017549 - The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition (bollingen Series) (19 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 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.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 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.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Book is clean and tight without inside markings. The Muqaddimah, or "Introduction," is the earliest critical study of history, the work of the Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun, written in 1377 as the preface and first book of a world history.

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Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Fine. The Muqaddimah often translated as 'Introduction' or 'Prolegomenon' is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khald?n this work laid down the foundations of several fields of knowledge including philosophy of history sociology ethnography and economics. This first complete English translation was published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series. | Pages: 706.…

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Cover is clear and bright with bold graphics, but with two minor creases on front cover. Binding is tight and unbroken. Pages are clean and unmarked with no stains, tears, creases or other damage. Book is straight with no warping or bending.

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