{"id":331,"date":"2019-03-19T02:21:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sluggerpost.com\/?p=331"},"modified":"2024-03-16T13:41:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T13:41:59","slug":"the-muqaddimah-an-introduction-to-history-abridged-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sluggerpost.com\/?p=331","title":{"rendered":"The Muqaddimah: <em>An Introduction to History &#8211; Abridged Edition<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ibn Khald\u00fbn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sluggerpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-1-129x200.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-332\" width=\"435\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sluggerpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-1-129x200.png 129w, https:\/\/sluggerpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-1-194x300.png 194w, https:\/\/sluggerpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image-1-300x464.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 435px) 100vw, 435px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edited by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>N. J. Dawood<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Translated by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Franz Rosenthal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Introduction by<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bruce B. Lawrence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collections: Princeton Classics<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>The Muqaddimah<\/strong><\/em>, often translated as \u201cIntroduction\u201d or \u201cProlegomenon,\u201d is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khald\u00fbn (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of several fields of knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics. The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamicist and interpreter of Arabic literature Franz Rosenthal, was published in three volumes in 1958 as part of the Bollingen Series and received immediate acclaim in the United States and abroad. A one-volume abridged version of Rosenthal\u2019s masterful translation first appeared in 1969.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Princeton Classics edition of the abridged version includes Rosenthal\u2019s original introduction as well as a contemporary introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence. This volume makes available a seminal work of Islam and medieval and ancient history to twenty-first century&nbsp;audiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ibn Khald\u00fbn Edited by N. J. Dawood Translated by Franz Rosenthal Introduction by Bruce B. Lawrence Collections: Princeton Classics The Muqaddimah, often translated as \u201cIntroduction\u201d or \u201cProlegomenon,\u201d is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khald\u00fbn (d. 1406), this monumental work established the foundations of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sluggerpost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sluggerpost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sluggerpost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sluggerpost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sluggerpost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sluggerpost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/sluggerpost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sluggerpost.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sluggerpost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sluggerpost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sluggerpost.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}