Hannah Arendt and The Muqaddimah

On a recent trip to the Hannah Arendt Collection housed in Bard College's Stevenson Library, we came across this three-volume copy of The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History:

Here is a description of the book, per Amazon.com:

"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 Islamicist 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."

This particular copy of The Muqaddimah is the same three-volume set that was published in 1958.

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