الخلاصة:
All the urbanization of the Bedouins and of civilization and a king
has a specific age as a person has a specific age ... Most of the time,
you have no more than three generations ... and I know that the king's
building rests on two essential foundations. The first is the thorn and
the assabiyya and it is the one expressed in the army and the second is
the money (economy), which is the strength of these soldiers and the
establishment of what the king needs in terms conditions and
imbalances if the national roads, its methods in these two foundations.
"Ibn Khaldun - Introduction -
The concept of the state that Ibn Khaldun referred to in his
introduction is not an abstract philosophical concept that can be
isolated from his historical environment. Nor is it a historical concept
deduced from specific systems. It is a historical socio-legal concept,
where the historian and thinker worked to search for the laws and rules
that are considered as common denominators of the group of countries
and nations that are absorbed to understand the legal and historical
structure of these countries.
For him, the center is civilization, the source of all power. But in
order to obtain this power, it is necessary to combine : (assabiyya) (a
solidarity group), a king (material resources) and a call (a symbolic
resource)
