‎IBN KHALDUN Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad (& QUATREMERE Etienne-Marc, ed.) [IBN KHALDOUN]‎
‎Prolégomènes dEbn-Khaldoun [= Muqaddimah Ibn Khaldun, in 3 volumes, text in Arabic] Edition publiée daprès les manuscrits de la Bibliothèque impériale par Etienne-Marc Quatremère‎

‎Paris, Typographie de Firmin Didot, Frères, fils et cie. 1858 Complete work in 3 volumes, [2],422 + [2],408 + [2],434 pp., 29cm., text fully in Arabic, publishers original softcovers, copy from the collection of the Belgian patristic and Syriac scholar Albert Van Roey (1915-2000, with a small ex-libris stamp and his signature in each volume), some light foxing throughout, published in the series Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque impériale et autres bibliothèques volumes XVI-XVII-XVIII, good condition, [Very rare and complete three-volume set of Quatremères 1858 first printed Arabic edition of Ibn Khalduns Muqqaddimah : it marks a decisive moment in the transmission of Arabic intellectual heritage, transforming a manuscript-bound medieval text (Ibn-Khaldun, 1332-1406) into a critically accessible printed work. This edition served as the basis for all major subsequent Western scholarship and translations. Ibn Khaldun wrote this work around 1377 (as an introduction to his universal history), in which he developed theories of history, economics, politics, culture, society. It is now regarded as a primary work in historiography, sociology and philosophy of history], weight: 3 kg., X120586‎

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