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 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 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 didn’t think it was a Golden Age at all; he thought it was awful. Sameer Rahim is publisher at the Bridge Street Press. He was formerly Prospect’s managing editor and arts and books editor ...

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

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

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 ...

Ibn Khaldun's concept of asabiyyah, or social cohesion, is particularly worthy of greater attention. Asabiyyah helps unite people and can foster solidarity through shared values which, ...

Ibn Khaldun knew what he was talking about. A veteran courtier, he started the “Muqaddimah” after retreating to the badu fortress of Beni Salama, now in Algeria, in the 1370s.