| Edition |
First Princeton classic edition / with a new introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence. |
| Description |
xliv, 465 pages ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Bollingen series |
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Bollingen series.
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| 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. |
| Note |
Originally published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1969. With new introd. |
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Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
History -- Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
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Civilization -- Early works to 1800.
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| Added Author |
Rosenthal, Franz, 1914-2003.
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Dawood, N. J.
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Lawrence, Bruce B.
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| Added Title |
Kitāb al-ʻibar. Muqaddimah. Selections. English
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| ISBN |
0691120544 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780691120546 paperback alkaline paper |
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