Item #012803 The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History. Ibn Khaldun, Franz Rosenthal.

The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969. Soft cover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Very Good. Item #012803

Abridged edition. Soft cover. xiv, 465 pp. Spine and joints sunned, creasing to lower corner of rear cover, price sticker to head of front cover. The Muqaddimah, or "Introduction," is the earliest critical study of history, the work of the Arab scholar Ibn Khaldun, written in 1377 as the preface and first book of a world history. It has become known as a self-contained work, treating in almost encyclopedic detail the general problems of the philosophy of history and sociology.

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