THE MUQADDIMAH An Introduction to History
he Mugaddimah (osal), often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ion Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields...
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Format: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Priceton, NJ
Priceton University Press
2020
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Series: | bollingen series
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Summary: | he Mugaddimah (osal), often translated as "Introduction" or "Prolegomenon," is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ion Khaldun (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics |
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Item Description: | Translations of the author's introduction (Muqaddimah) to his Kitab al-'ibar |
Physical Description: | xiv, 463 pages illustrations 25 cm |
ISBN: | 9789390804757 |