As theorised by Ibn Khaldun, a state’s lifespan can be traced through a five-stage cycle — from establishment with low taxes and high public morale to eventual decay, marked by over-taxation, ...

Ibn Khaldun only criticized Aristotle’s metaphysics, not the entirety of his enormous corpus. I wrote nearly an entire chapter on Ibn Khaldun’s Islamic faith and practice.

Ibn Khaldun was born May 27 1332 in Tunis, the capital city of present-day Tunisia. Raised and educated in a family of scholars and politicians, Khaldun came across as a gifted thinker right from ...

Ibn Khaldun’s approach to society, history. Comparing Ibn Khaldun to German philosophers Friedrich Hegel and Karl Marx, Senturk said Hegel has an ideologist approach to society and Marx has a ...

As Abd al-Rahman Ibn Khaldun mentioned in his book ‘Muqaddimah’, all states pass through various stages, ranging from ...

Ibn Khaldun would have well understood the rebirth of Israel and the 'asabiyah-- group consciousness (emphasized throughout his writings) -- which made it possible, ...

The publisher seems not to have noticed, but Robert Irwin’s Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography (Princeton University Press) happens to appear on the 60th anniversary of the first complete English ...

As Ibn Khaldun observed some 700 years ago, corruption can kill asabiyya and bring the hasty downfall of whole dynasties. Clearly the al-Assads had not learned much from the history of their own ...

In the first generation, Ibn Khaldun wrote, an empire is founded by rough-hewn bedouins, thirsty for power, closely tied together, and always wary: “Their swords are kept sharp, their attack is ...

“And, no, I did not personally know Ibn Khaldun, although we may have had some friends in common!” So wrote former president Ronald Reagan in a Feb. 18, 1993 op/ed in the New York Times ...