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Posted at Mar 08/2011 09:06PM:
Aniqa: What Ibn Khaldun refers to as "group feeling", which is characteristic of any group of people living together. In order to achieve royal authority and dynastic power, this "group feeling" is necessary. Dynasties can dispense of good feeling once they are established; however, doing so may jeopardize their rule by allowing other empires or families to take over. Hence 'asabiyya is central to the rise and fall of civilizations/dynasties. Ibn Khaldul also claims that religious propaganda cannot materialize without group feeling because "any political undertaking required group feeling."

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Posted at Mar 10/2011 07:36PM:
ian: Does this begin to fall apart at a certain stage in his cyclical understanding of history?