The Muqaddimah
Subtitle: an introduction to history
By: Ibn Khaldun ; translated from the Arabic by Franz Rosenthal ; abridged and edited by N. J. Dawood.
Contributors: Dawood, N. J.; Rosenthal, Franz, 1914-
Series: Bollingen series ; 160
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1958
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 465
Subjects: Civilization -- Early works to 1800.; History -- Philosophy -- Early works to 1800.
Work titles: Kitab al-ìbar. Muqaddimah. English
Description: The Muqaddimah, often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldūn, this work laid down the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. This first complete English translation was published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series.
Notes: Translation of the author's introduction to his Kitab al-ìbar.

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