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Loading... The Muqaddimah (1958)by Ibn Khaldūn, Ibn Khaldun
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Provides an insight into the views of a Berber-Arab Muslim of his period on the superiority of Islam and the workings of historical forces as understood in the period. ( ) A philosophical text on the uses and meaning of the study of history, written in 1377. It includes historical descriptions as well. Ibn Khaldun was an Andalusian who moved to the Maghrib after the fall of Seville to the Spanish. He spent the last 20 years of his life in Egypt. This edition is an abridgement of the three-volume set translated from Arabic by Franz Rosenthal. no reviews | add a review
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The first complete English translation of the introduction to a history of the world by the 14th-century Islamic scholar and statesman Ibn Khaldûn. No library descriptions found. |
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