Research Catalog

Title

The Muqaddimah : an introduction to history / Ibn Khaldun ; translated and introduced by Franz Rosenthal ; abridged and edited by N.J. Dawood.

Author

Ibn Khaldūn, 1332-1406

Publication

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rosenthal, Franz, 1914-2003
• Dawood, N. J.
• Lawrence, Bruce B.

Description

xliv, 465 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"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 Khaldun (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 by Princeton University Press 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."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Bollingen series

Uniform Title

• Kitāb al-ʻibar. Muqaddimah. Selections. English
• Bollingen series.

Alternative Title

Kitāb al-ʻibar. Muqaddimah.

Subject

• History > Philosophy > Early works to 1800
• Civilization > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

Early works

Note

• Originally published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1969. With new introd.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / N.J. Dawood -- The introduction -- Book one of the Kitab al-'Ibar -- Ch. 1. Human civilization in general -- Ch. 2. Bedouin civilization, savage nations and tribes and their conditions of life, including several basic and explanatory statements -- Ch. 3. On dynasties, royal authority, the caliphate, government ranks, and all that goes with these things : the chapter contains basic and supplementary propositions -- Ch. 4. Countries and cities, and all other forms of sedentary civilization : the conditions occurring there : primary and secondary considerations in this connection -- Ch. 5. On the various aspects of making a living, such as profit and the crafts : the conditions that occur in this connection : a number of problems are connected with this subject -- Ch. 6. The various kinds of sciences : the methods of instruction : the conditions that obtain in these conditions.

ISBN

0691120544 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004048684

OCLC

• 55624892
• SCSB-11761542

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library