The Muqaddimah : an introduction to history / Ibn Khaldûn ; translated and introduced by Franz Rosenthal ; abridged and edited by N.J. Dawood ; with a new introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ibn Khaldūn, 1332-1406, Author.

Contributor:

Rosenthal, Franz, 1914-2003, translator.

Lawrence, Bruce B., writer of introduction.

Dawood, N. J., Editor.

Series:

Princeton classics ; 111.

Bollingen series.

Princeton classics ; [111]

Bollingen series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic civilization.

History--Philosophy.

Civilization.

rise and fall.

market place.

Military art and science.

Taxation.

Sorcery.

Science(s).

Saints.

Ruler(s).

Punishment.

Money or exchange.

Medecine.

Human beings.

Maghrib.

Luxury.

Laws.

Islam.

Income and expenditure.

Ifriqiyah.

Group feeling.

God: prayer.

Families.

Egyptian(s).

Dynasty: histories.

Civilization (social organization).

Berber(s).

Barmecides.

Arabs.

Angels.

History.

Civilization--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Early works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 pages).

Edition:

First Princeton Classics edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

In English.

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 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

INTRODUCTION TO THE 2005 EDITION

FROM THE TRANSLATOR'S INTRODUCTION TO THE 1958 UNABRIDGED EDITION

The Introduction and Book One of the World History, entitled Kitdb aWIbar of Ibn Khaldun

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1. Human civilization in general

Chapter 2. Bedouin civilization, savage nations and tribes and their conditions of life, including several basic and explanatory statements

Chapter 3. On dynasties, royal authority, the caliphate, government ranks, and all that goes with these things. The chapter contains basic and supplementary propositions

Chapter 4. Countries and cities, and all other forms of sedentary civilization. The conditions occurring there. Primary and secondary considerations in this connection

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

Chapter 6. The various kinds of sciences. The methods of instruction. The conditions that obtain in these connections

(CONCLUDING REMARK)

Index

Notes:

"This is an abridgment of the three-volume edition translated, and with an introduction, by Franz Rosenthal, published by Pantheon Books as Bollingen Series XLIII and copyright © 1958 by Bollingen Foundation,Inc., New York, NY"--Copyright page.

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed 30 April 2026).

ISBN:

1-4008-6609-X

OCLC:

1153486831