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From Ibn Khaldun, the Muslim faqih, historian and philosopher of history:

First Stage of Ibn Khaldun’s three stages through which man, as a collective animal, passes.

Stage One Bedounism is not Nomadism. The Bedouin is simply outside the passive urban community. He does not need theories, nor laws cooked up by party legalists, in order to know what is right. He has recognized himself as an in-time creature with a beyond-time contract. From his emergence there is born a Resistance. He is able to become by the power of growth and expansion a new civic force in which emerges “the most powerful force that the social man can experience. It is kinship that transcends the tribal and the familial” a unification of the group.

The Second Stage defined by Ibn Khaldun with the term ‘Asabiyya’ “the life and death unifying bond of brotherhood without blood ties […] Asabiyya unites men to find the power to act and transform and command […] If the binding factor (religio – to bind together) is there, that is Divine religion, it is, that being its highest possibility, assured a triumph”

Stage Three is Kingship, the appointment of a King, which transfers that authority to each of the people of the Asabiyya. Once a people, a whole people take on this charge, they become an irresistible power.

Interpretation:

Stage One: Individuals that live in cities but are considered to be outsiders by the majority, they are immigrants, poor etc. They know they will die and they have a contract with Allah which they want to keep until the Next Life. These individuals join with other similar individuals and become united as brothers and sisters not based on family or blood. They become a civic force for resistance of the bad to establish the good as they see it.


Stage Two: They unite on Islam the word religion mean 'to bind', so they become bound as one.


Stage Three: They appoint a leader, and all follow him...now they become irresistible and they become the rulers.