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, ...

No one denies that several Arab and Gulf countries have suffered from administrative failures that opened the door to widespread corruption, so much so that ...

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

What is a state? According to Ibn Khaldun, it is an entity that restricts, controls, and strives to eliminate injustice. It builds a governance system that upholds human equality, dignity, and liberty ...

For instance, the work of a 14th century seminal Muslim sociologist, Ibn Khaldun, still offers relevant insights for addressing the growing polarisation in our contemporary society.

In the Western imagination, the Sahara is an empty space, a state of nature. Some locals shared this view before Europeans discovered the savannah south of the sands. Ibn Khaldun, the polymath ...

During the Islamic Golden age, scholars such as al-Masudi and Ibn Khaldun referred in Arabic to Khalij Fars (Persian Gulf), while Estakhri and al-Muqaddasi used Bahr Fars (Persian Sea).

Perhaps the Houthis’ most important asset is asabiyya, a quality that was identified centuries ago by the Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun as the binding force of empires.

Ibn Khaldun observed that if you cut taxes on the olive harvest … that actually people grew more olives and tax yields went up. For Muslim scholars, however, conducting research in any ...

Ibn Khaldun’s asabiyya and Bashar al-Assad’s rapid downfall The Syrian army disintegrated in the face of the opposition offensive because of low morale and years of mismanagement.

QatarDebate Centre (QDC) has opened the Qatari Council at Ibn Khaldun University in Istanbul, Turkiye, in the presence of officials from the university, alongside dignitaries and representatives ...