The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition

Ibn Khaldûn

Published by Princeton University Press 2015

The Muqaddimah

An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition

Ibn Khaldûn
Edited by: N. J. Dawood
With contributions by: Bruce B. Lawrence
Translated by: Franz Rosenthal

Volume 111 in the series Princeton Classics

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400866090

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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.

Reviews

"From review of Princeton's original edition: "Undoubtedly the greatest work of its kind that has ever been created by any mind in any time or place . . . the most comprehensive and illuminating analysis of how human affairs work that has been made anywhere.""---Arnold J. Toynbee, Observer

"[The] most remarkable book written during the entire Middle Ages, one of the great intellectual achievements of all time."

"Ibn Khaldûn, the great 14th-century Arab scholar, is the most authoritative and most beguiling of Arabic polymaths…. His learning and ideas have an astonishingly modern relevance. His encyclopaedic work is a wonderfully readable mixture of history, sociology, ethnography, economics, science, art, literature, cookery, and medicine."---Iain Finlayson, Times

"From review of Princeton's original edition: "[N. J. Dawood] has, by skillful abridgement and deft but unobtrusive editing, produced an attractive and manageable volume, which should make the essential ideas of Ibn Khaldûn accessible to a wide circle of readers.""

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
INTRODUCTION TO THE 2005 EDITION Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
FROM THE TRANSLATOR’S INTRODUCTION TO THE 1958 UNABRIDGED EDITION Publicly Available Download PDF	xxvii
The Introduction and Book One of the World History, entitled Kitdb aWIbar of Ibn Khaldun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
BOOK ONE. OF THE KITAB AL-CIBAR
INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Chapter 1. Human civilization in general Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
Chapter 2. Bedouin civilization, savage nations and tribes and their conditions of life, including several basic and explanatory statements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter 3. On dynasties, royal authority, the caliphate, government ranks, and all that goes with these things. The chapter contains basic and supplementary propositions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 4. Countries and cities, and all other forms of sedentary civilization. The conditions occurring there. Primary and secondary considerations in this connection Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
Chapter 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 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297
Chapter 6. The various kinds of sciences. The methods of instruction. The conditions that obtain in these connections Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
(CONCLUDING REMARK) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	459
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	460

Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 512
Keywords: Angels; Arabs; Barmecides; Berber(s); Civilization (social organization); Family; Dynasty: histories; Egyptian(s); Group feeling; Income and expenditure; Islam; Laws; Luxury; Maghrib; Medecine; Money or exchange; Punishment; Ruler(s); Saints; Taxation; Warfare; Sorcery; Science(s); Man; Ifriqiyah; Arabs; market place; rise and fall; God: prayer

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Published: March 31, 2020
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