Konsep asabiyah ibn khaldun biography

One of the major concepts that Ibn Khaldun discusses in his great work Al Muqaddimah, besides the role of environment and geography upon people and shaping the human condition, is the notion of group feeling and its role in history, the formation of societies, and how this too is shaped by the environment.

One could say that Ibn Khaldun is the first systematic geographic and geopolitical philosopher in that almost all of his core ideas are tied to the environment. So what role does group feeling and intimacy play in Ibn Khaldun’s magnum opus?

Since all life starts at the margins, or the “desert,” e.g.

Konsep asabiyah ibn khaldun biography in english

the harsh world before progressing, humans need intimate bonds in order to survive, and eventually thrive. Humans instinctively and naturally turn to their immediate family for the first structure of support and justice in their lives.

This is because, as Ibn Khaldun says, love of family and one’s own is natural in humans except in the most debased and sinful of men, “Respect