Society, State, and Urbanism: Ibn Khaldun's Sociological Thought Ilm al- umran is ...an independent science. This science has its own peculiar object that is, human civilization and social organization. The discussion of this topic is something new, extraordinary, and highly useful. Penetrating research has shown the way to it. Ibn Khaldun This book probes the nature, scope, and methods of ilm al- umran, the new science of human social organization, as it is developed in Ibn Khaldun s 14th-century masterpiece, the Mugaddimah. It explores his ideas and observations on society, culture, socialization, social control, the state, asabiyah (social solidarity), history as a cyclical movement, urbanization, and the typology of badawa (primitive life) and hadara (civilized life or urbanism). Through a comparative perspective, this study illustrates that Khaldun s ideas about society have conceptually preceded those of Machiavelli, Vico, and Turgot, as well as those of Montesqueau, Comte, Durkheim, Gumplowicz, Spengler, Tonnies, and even Marx. Society, State, and Urbanism demonstrates that Ibn Khaldun s thought is relevant to contemporary sociological theory, and that his very language differs little from that of classical and modern sociologists. |
Contents
The Man and His Background | 1 |
II Ibn Khalduns Work | 5 |
The New Science Ilm alUmran | 11 |
I Ibn Khalduns New Science | 13 |
Convergencies and Divergencies | 21 |
Society Culture and Socialization | 27 |
Sui generis | 28 |
II Culture | 33 |
The Cyclical Pattern History as a Cycle | 69 |
Ibn Khaldun and Other Social Thinkers | 75 |
Urbanization and Urbanism as a Mode of Life | 83 |
Requirements for Town Planning | 84 |
Size and Density | 85 |
II Urbanism as a Way of Life | 87 |
Ibn Khaldun and Other Writers | 90 |
The Khaldunian Typology | 95 |
III Socialization Process | 35 |
IV Social Control | 40 |
Asabiyah Social Solidarity | 43 |
The Rise and Decline of the State | 53 |
Qualities of Rulership | 55 |
Factors for the Decline of the State | 59 |
Ibn Khaldun and Other Social Thinkers | 63 |
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