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Ibn Khaldun’s theory of asabiyyah is a sociological framework that explains how societies form, rise, and decline. This theory emerged as an effort to understand the social, political, and economic transformations occurring in 14th-century North Africa and the Islamic world. During Ibn Khaldun’s lifetime, events such as the Mamluks, Berber tribes, Al-Andalus’s period of decline, and the rise of the Ottomans demanded a deep analysis of social cohesion and leadership dynamics.Ibn Khaldun’s work “I

Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) was a prominent thinker, historian, and social scientist of the medieval period. He is regarded as one of the founders of the discipline now known as sociology. He is renowned for his works on history, politics, economics, and social structures.LifeIbn Khaldun was born in 1332 in the city of Tunis in North Africa. His full name was Abdurrahman ibn Muhammad ibn Khaldun al-Hadrami. His family belonged to a scholarly lineage that had migrated from Al-Andalus (modern-day Spai