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The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History
The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History in Bloomington, MN
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The Muqaddimah (المقدمة)
, 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 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.
, 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 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.
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