The Muqaddimah : an introduction to history /
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English
Arabic
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
[1958].
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Bollingen series ;
43.
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Call Number: D16.7 .I233 v.1-3
Table of Contents:
- Volume I.
- Introduction / N.J. Dawood
- The introduction
- Book one of the Kitab al-'Ibar
- Ch. 1. Human civilization in general
- Ch. 2. Bedouin civilization, savage nations and tribes and their conditions of life, including several basic and explanatory statements
- Ch. 3. On dynasties, royal authority, the caliphate, government ranks, and all that goes with these things : the chapter contains basic and supplementary propositions. Volume II.
- Ch. 3. Continued
- Ch. 4. Countries and cities, and all other forms of sedentary civilization : the conditions occurring there : primary and secondary considerations in this connection
- Ch. 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
- Ch. 6. The various kinds of sciences : the methods of instruction : the conditions that obtain in these conditions. Volume III.
- Ch. 6. Continued.