Preface
1. The Man and His Background
I. Ibn Khaldun's Life and Character
II. Ibn Khaldun's Work
2. The New Science: Ilm al-Umran
I. Ibn Khaldun's New Science
II. Ibn Khaldun and Comte: Convergencies and Divergencies
3. Society, Culture, and Socialization
I. Society: Sui generis
II. Culture
III. Socialization Process
IV. Social Control
4. Asabiyah (Social Solidarity)
5. The Rise and Decline of the State
Qualities of Rulership
Factors for the Decline of the State
Ibn Khaldun and Other Social Thinkers
6. The Cyclical Pattern: History as a Cycle
Ibn Khaldun and Other Social Thinkers
7. Urbanization and Urbanism as a Mode of Life
I. Urbanization
Requirements for Town Planning
Size and Density
II. Urbanism as a Way of Life
Ibn Khaldun and Other Writers
8. The Khaldunian Typology
I. Ibn Khaldun's Badawa and Hadara
II. Relation to Other Typologies
9. Summary and Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index