The Muqaddimah : : An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition / / Ibn Ibn Khaldûn; ed. by N. J. Dawood.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Ibn Khaldûn, Ibn,
• HerausgeberIn: Dawood, N. J.,
• MitwirkendeR: Lawrence, Bruce B.,; Rosenthal, Franz,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Classics ; 111
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (512 p.)

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 kn...

Table of 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
• BOOK ONE. OF THE KITAB AL-CIBAR
• 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