#IbnKhaldun

“After twenty years of political shipwreck, one man locked himself in a desert castle and invented the study of civilization itself — then walked out of a besieged city to interview the conqueror who was proving his theory true.”

“Civilizations are not a parade of random events — they rise, cohere, soften, and fall according to patterns you can study scientifically, and the engine of the whole cycle is group solidarity: the invisible glue he called ʿaṣabiyya.”