The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldn, Franz Rosenthal - 9780691281902

The MuqaddimahAn Introduction to History (Unabridged Edition, Volume 1)\nAuthor(s): Ibn Khaldn, Franz Rosenthal\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691281902, 978-0691281902\nSynopsis\nVolume one of the classic Islamic history of the world, now available to a new generation of readers in a fully unabridged edition\n\nWritten by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldn, The Muqaddimah, or Introduction, is the earliest critical study of history. Though intended as the preface and first book of a world history, it is a wholly self-contained work, one that laid the foundations for fields of knowledge ranging from the philosophy of history to sociology and ethnography and has influenced writers such as Frank Herbert, Bruce Chatwin, and Naguib Mahfouz. A three-volume English translation by the eminent Islamicist Franz Rosenthal was first published in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series, garn.