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Ibn Khaldun - "The Father of Sociology"

Guerrilla History

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The Origins of Dynastic Power

He says there are social forces that explain why certain groups come to dominate others. He was, you know, positioned in north africa and saw so many successive changes of different tribal groupings coming together,. seizing cities and then establishing a dynasty. But after three, four, five generations, kind of losing power to another groupComing from the countryside where tribal identity was thesole manner of subsistence and survival. And he could see these people ready to eat the lunch of these sophisticates at the court who are now enjoying the luxuries of city, urban civilization.

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