Muqaddimah
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According to some contemporary scholars, the Muqaddimah constitutes the earliest known work addressing sociology, demography, and cultural history.[1]
Making and release
The Muqaddimah was first printed in 1857 at the Bulaq Press in Cairo in a standalone volume.[2] After leaving political life, Ibn Khaldun spent nearly four years in seclusion at Qalʿat ibn Salama, where he composed the initial version of the Muqaddimah.[3] The year 1377 marked the completion of a draft for the Muqaddimah.[3] The Muqaddimah serves as the initial component of a three-part project, the Kitab al-ʿIbar, which Ibn Khaldun spent roughly thirty years developing; this universal history fills seventeen volumes, each containing 500 pages in its contemporary edition.[3]
Copies of the Muqaddimah made during Ibn Khaldun's lifetime survive, and several contain handwritten marginal notes or additions by the author.[3] Under the title Les Prolégomènes d’Ebn Khaldoun, Étienne-Marc Quatremère produced a three-volume printed edition of the Arabic text in Paris during 1858.[4] A French translation appearing in three volumes was issued by William McGuckin de Slane in 1863.[4]
References
- Wikipedia, "Muqaddimah" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ruud, "Encyclopedia of medieval literature", 2014; Hernawan, "IBN KHALDUN THOUGHT: A review of al-Muqaddimah Book", Jurnal Ushuluddin, 2015, p. 173–184; Irwin, "Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography", Princeton University Press, 2018, p. X; Akhtar 1997; Alatas, "The Autonomous, the Universal and the Future of Sociology", Current Sociology, 2006, p. 7–23 [15] (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Muqaddimah" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: El Shamsy, "Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition", Princeton University Press, 2020-02-11 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Muqaddimah" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Ibn Khaldūn, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān", Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE; "Ibn Khaldūn, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān", Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE; Tekin, "Islamic philosophy and the globalization of science: Ahmed Cevdet's translation of the sixth chapter of Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah", The British Journal for the History of Science, December 2022, p. 459–475; Schmidt, "The Manuscripts of Ibn Khaldun", Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1926, p. 171–176 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Muqaddimah" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Ibn Khaldūn, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān", Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE; "Ibn Khaldūn, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān", Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE; ʻAẓmah, "Ibn Khaldūn : an essay in reinterpretation", Central European University Press, 2003 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
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