The Muqaddimah: an introduction to history

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 kn...

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1. Verfasser: Ibn-Ḫaldūn, ʿAbd-ar-Raḥmān Ibn-Muḥammad 1332-1406 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Rosenthal, Franz 1914-2003 (ÜbersetzerIn, VerfasserIn eines Geleitwortes), Dawood, N. J. 1927- (HerausgeberIn), Lawrence, Bruce B. 1941- (VerfasserIn eines Geleitwortes)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press 2015
Ausgabe:Abridged edition
Schriftenreihe:Bollingen series
Princeton classic
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Zusammenfassung: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. (Publisher)
Beschreibung:This edition of this translation originally published: London: Routledge and K. Paul, 1967
Translated from the Arabic
Beschreibung:xxxv, 465 Seiten 21 cm
ISBN:9780691166285
0691166285