The Muqaddimah : An Introduction to History (Unabridged Edition, Volume 3).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Khaldûn, Ibn.

Series:

Bollingen Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (641 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2026.

Summary:

Volume three of the classic Islamic history of the world, now available to a new generation of readers in a fully unabridged edition Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn, The Muqaddimah , or "Introduction," is the earliest critical study of history.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

Abbreviations and Symbols

Chapter VI: The Various Kinds of Sciences. The Methods of Instruction. The Conditions that Obtain in these Connections. The Chapter Includes a Prefatory Discussion and Appendices [Concluded]

[12] Jurisprudence and its subdivision, inheritance laws

The science of inheritance laws

[13] The science of the principles of jurisprudence and its subdivisions, dialectics and controversial questions

The controversial questions, so. - Dialectics

[14] The science of speculative theology

[15] An exposition of ambiguity in the qur'ân and the sunnah and of the resulting dogmatic schools among both the orthodox and the innovators

[16] The science of sufism

[17] The science of dream interpretation

[18] The various kinds of intellectual sciences

[19] The sciences concerned with numbers

The craft of calculation

Algebra

Business (arithmetic)

Inheritance laws

[20] The geometrical sciences

Spherical.figures, conic sections, and mechanics

Surveying

Optics

[21] Astronomy

Astronomical tables

[22] The science of logic

[23] Physics

[24] The science of medicine

[25] The science of agriculture

[26] The science of metaphysics

[27] The sciences of sorcery and talismans

The evil eye

[28] The science of the secrets of letters

The Zâ'irajah

On learning hidden secrets from letter connections

[29] The science of alchemy

[30] A refutation of philosophy. The corruption of the students of philosophy

[31] A refutation of astrology. 'The weakness of its achievements. The harmfulness of its goal

[32] A denial of the effectiveness of alchemy. The impossibility of its existence. The harm that arises from practicing it.

[33] The purposes that must be kept in mind in literary composition and that alone are to be considered valid

[34] The great number of scholarly works available is an obstacle on the path to attaining scholarship

[35] The great number of brief handbooks available on scholarly subjects is detrimental to the process of instruction

[36] The right attitude in scientific instruction and toward the method of giving such instruction

[37] Study of the auxiliary sciences should not be prolonged, and their problems should not be treated in detail

[38] The instruction of children and the different methods employed in the Muslim cities

[39] Severity to students does them harm

[40] A scholar's education is greatly improved by traveling in quest of knowledge and meeting the authoritative teachers of his time

[41] Scholars are, of all people, those least familiar with the ways of politics

[42] Most of the scholars in Islam have been non-Arabs (Persians)

[43] A person whose first language was not Arabic finds it harder than the native speaker of Arabic to acquire the sciences

[44] The sciences concerned with the Arabic language

Grammar

The science of lexicography

The science of syntax and style and literary criticism

The science of literature

[45] Language is a technical habit

[46] Contemporary Arabic is an independent language different from the languages of the Murḍar and the Ḥimyar

[47] The language of the sedentary and urban population is an independent language different from the language of the Murḍar

[48 ] Instruction in the Murḍar language

[49] The habit of the Murḍar language is different from Arabic philology and can dispense with it in the process of instruction.

[50] The interpretation and real meaning of the word "taste" according to the technical terminology of literary critics. An explanation of why Arabicized non-Arabs as a rule do not have it

[51] The urban population is in general deficient in obtaining the linguistic habit that results from instruction. The more remote urban people are from the Arabic language, the more difficult it is for them to obtain it

[52] The division of speech into poetry and prose

[53] The ability to write both good poetry and good prose is only very rarely found together in one person

[54] The craft of poetry and the way of learning it

[55] Poetry and prose work with words, and not with ideas

[56] The linguistic habit is obtained by much memorizing. The good quality of the linguistic habit is the result of the good quality of the memorized material

[57] An explanation of the meaning ef natural and contrived speech. How contrived speech may be either good or deficient

[58] People of rank are above cultivating poetry

[59] Contemporary Arab poetry, Bedouin and urban

The Spanish muwashshaḥahs and zajals

Concluding Remark

Selected Bibliography

Addenda (1966)

Index of Arabic Terms

General Index.

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ISBN:

0-691-29072-5

0-691-28200-5

OCLC:

1584462161