Society State and Urbanism

<p>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).</p><p>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.</p>