Author: INB KHALDOUN. SCHULZ (Friedrich Eduard):
Title: Sur le Grand Ouvrage historique et Critique d'Ibn-Khaldoun, appelé: Kitab-Ol-Iber we Diwan an -Ol, Moubteda Wel Khaber.
Description: A Paris, A la Librairie Orientale de Dondey-Dupre Père et Fils..., 1825. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 221 x 144 mms., pp. [3] 4 -36, with several leaves containing text in Arabic script, original blue wrappers (frayed and worn). The Arab historian, historiographer, and sociologist Ibn Khaldoun (1332 - 1406) is best-known for the work about which Schulz has written his commentary, the Muqaddimah. Schulz (1799 - 1829) was one of the first scholars to uncover evidence of the Kingdom of Urartu, an area centred on Lake Van in the Armenian Highlands in ninth to sixth centuries B. C. The present work contains comments on and translations from the preface to the Muqaddimah. Copac locates copies in BL, Bodleian, Cambridge, and Warburg Institute; WorldCat adds McGill, Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire Strasbourg, and niversitätsbibliothek der Eberhard Karls Universität.

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