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The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History - Abridged Edition
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ByIbn Khaldun(Author),N. J. Dawood(Editor),Franz Rosenthal(Translator) & Bruce Lawrence(Introduction), Princeton University Press, paperback, 512 pages
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 knowledge, including the philosophy of history, sociology, ethnography, and economics.
The first complete English translation, by the eminent Islamist 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's masterful translation first appeared in 1969.
This Princeton Classics edition of the abridged version includes Rosenthal's 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 audiences.
About the author:
Ibn Khaldun was a Tunisian Arab scholar of Islam, social scientist, philosopher and historian who has been described as the founder of the modern disciplines of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography.
In His Father’s Footsteps, Activist Martin Luther King III Speaks at Kean
Speaking at the Kean University campus where his father delivered a powerful address almost 60 years earlier, human rights activist Martin Luther King III said young people and others must use their votes to “make America what it ought to be.”
King energized the crowd of students, faculty and community members who filled the North Avenue Academic Building auditorium on February 13 for Kean’s Distinguished Lecture Series.
“The biggest message for this year, because it is an election year, is the importance of voting and encouraging others to vote at the highest levels,” King said. “We can and must do a better job of motivating people to use the power of the ballot.
“This is the most important election of my lifetime. Consider that college students played an important role in civil rights. The great struggle for justice and human rights we face today will require the same courage and commitment.”
Kean President Dawood Farahi, Ph.D. welcomed King to the lecture series.
“The King family is a part of the history of American civil rights, some of it shining and hopeful, some of it dark and painful. Mr. King continues the work of his father. For generations his family has sacrificed and worked for this great nation,” Farahi said.
King’s father, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., spoke on February 9, 1961 on Kean’s Union campus when it was then called Newark State College. The younger King, who was 10 years old when his father was assassinated in 1968, evoked his father’s legacy often in the lecture. He also followed in his father’s footsteps during a short tour of the Kean campus prior to the speech.
He signed a Kean University guest book, as his father had done, and strolled with Farahi through the University’s Human Rights Gallery and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Reflection Garden, where a permanent sketch of his father, a sculpture and several quotes from his father ar The actual colour may not match the images shown. The Koran This edition follows the traditional sequence of the Koranic surahs. About The Book The Koran is universally accepted by Muslims to be the infallible Word of God as first revealed to the Prophet Muhammad by the Angel Gabriel nearly fourteen hundred years ago. Its 114 chapters, or surahs, recount the narratives central to Muslim belief, and together they form one of the world’s most influential prophetic works and a literary masterpiece in its own right. But above all, the Koran provides the rules of conduct that remain fundamental to the Muslim faith today: prayer, fasting, pilgrimage to Mecca and absolute faith in God. N. J. Dawood’s masterly translation is the result of his life-long study of the Koran’s language and style, and presents the English reader with a fluent and authoritative rendering, while reflecting the flavour and rhythm of the original. This edition follows the traditional sequence of the Koranic surahs. Over a million copies sold worldwide Note By Kitaabun.com: Although NJ Dawood is not known to be Muslim, this translation of the Qur'an has been the first introduction of the Majesty and Power of the Qur'an to Many Muslims as well as non-Muslims who went on to accepting the Islam. Can he who has received Our gracious promise, and will see it fulfilled, be compared with him to whom We have given the enjoyment of this life and who will be summoned on the Da of resurrection? By Elizabeth J. Plantz Elizabeth J. Plantz is Africana Cataloger, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois. She worked for two years with the Kuwait University Library Task Force prior to the Gulf War and now serves as a member of the library committee for the Islamic Cultural Center, Northbrook, Illinois. Married to an Iraqi American Muslim, she is raising her young son, Kareem, in the faith. Copyright 1998; used with permission of Library Journal, a publication of Cahners Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier. From Library Journal, vol. 123, no. 16, October 1, 1998. (Permission obtained covering republication/translation of the text by U.S. Embassy Public Affairs/press outside of the United States.) AN INCREASINGLY VISIBLE PRESENCE in our pluralistic society, Muslims are now estimated to exceed five million, with a diverse ethnic makeup of African Americans, Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Arabs, Africans, Iranians, Turks, Southeast Asians, white Americans, and Hispanics. They may soon outnumber Jews, making them the second-largest religious group in the United States. Unfortunately, Islam is still perceived in this country as a dangerous menace, an image often reinforced by the media's portrayal of international political events. The characteristics of the faith practiced by millions too often have become confused with the politics and actions of a few in the name of Islam. As a result, many Muslims in the United States have experienced firsthand prejudice and discrimination. There is, therefore, an increasing need for libraries to collect up-to-date, unbiased materials aimed at non-Muslims that explain Islam and promote understanding, tolerance, and acceptance. In addition, immigrants and new converts must have information on what it means to be a Muslim in America. Since many would never think to go to a library, turning instead to their mosque, librarians should reach out to their l
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Translator : N. J. Dawood
Paperback 464 Pages
ISBN : 978-0140449204
Publisher : Penguin Classic
‘God is the light of the heavens and the earth … God guides to His light whom he will’.
This edition follows the normal accepted sequence of the surahs.
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