sawaaiiq's review against another edition
4.0
I thought I'd read this before The Muqaddimah by ibn Khaldun and it was interesting. It's a very short book on social cohesion and the forms it comes in, the author seems to define asabiyyah quite broadly but simply put, it is a sense of loyalty due to a shared, common feature. Asabiyyah is quite often described as nationalism or patriotism and here it is presented as a wider foundation of civilisation.
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