The Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun مقدمة ابن خلدون

This course describes specific and general points in the Muqaddimah of the famous Arabic scholar "Ibn Khaldun" in the 14th century.
It is extracting how "states in flux" were described in the Khalduinian's terms through his book.

It constitutes of 5 lectures:

1- Introduction

• Who is Ibn Khaldun?

• What do we mean by “States in Flux”?

• Chapters’ headings of the “Muqaddimah”

2- Causality in history

• What is history?

• Reasons of untruth in historical information (6 reasons)

• Untruth stories by transmitters of history (5 stories)

• How to investigate historical information correctly?

3- Asabiyyah in al-umran

• Blood relation or corresponding

• Purity of lineage in the savage Arabs

• How lineages become confused?

• Relation between leadership and Asabiyyah

• Relation between nobility and Asabiyyah

• Masters and descents in Asabiyyah

4- Religion in dynasties

• How is royal authority attained?

• Firmly established dynasty & Asabiyyah

• Assabiyyah WITHOUT Religion

• Asabiyyah WITH Religion

• Important equations

5- The circle of Justice

• What do we mean by the circle of justice (Politics)

• Keywords in the circle of Justice

• Let’s apply