Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- General Introduction
- Part I On History
- Part II On Combat Solidarities
- 3 Man is a social animal
- 4 Bedouins are naturally courageous, much more so than sedentary peoples
- 5 On combat solidarities, and the conditions in which their strength declines
- 6 Bedouin nations are more skilled at conquest than other nations
- 7 As long as combat solidarities exist among members of the same nation, the monarchy will remain in that nation’s control, even if power changes hands between its various branches
- 8 When the Arabs take control of cultivated territories, they quickly bring about their ruin
- Part III On the State
- Part IV Cities
- Part V Earning a Living
- Part VI Sciences
- Part VII Texts from Ibn Khaldūn’s Universal History
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
7 - As long as combat solidarities exist among members of the same nation, the monarchy will remain in that nation’s control, even if power changes hands between its various branches
from Part II - On Combat Solidarities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 January 2025
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- General Introduction
- Part I On History
- Part II On Combat Solidarities
- 3 Man is a social animal
- 4 Bedouins are naturally courageous, much more so than sedentary peoples
- 5 On combat solidarities, and the conditions in which their strength declines
- 6 Bedouin nations are more skilled at conquest than other nations
- 7 As long as combat solidarities exist among members of the same nation, the monarchy will remain in that nation’s control, even if power changes hands between its various branches
- 8 When the Arabs take control of cultivated territories, they quickly bring about their ruin
- Part III On the State
- Part IV Cities
- Part V Earning a Living
- Part VI Sciences
- Part VII Texts from Ibn Khaldūn’s Universal History
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
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- Ibn Khaldūn: Political Thought , pp. 39 - 44Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025