The Bedouins

The Bedouins and savage nations

The Bedouins

Ibn Khaldun

Bedouins are closer to being good than sedentary people

Ibn Khaldun

The Reliance Of Sedentary People On Laws Destroys Their Fortitude And Power Of Resistance

Ibn Khaldun

Only tribes held together by group feeling can live in the desert

Ibn Khaldun

Group Feeling and Purity of Lineage

Ibn Khaldun

Leadership cannot be handed to those not of the same descent

Ibn Khaldun

Only Those Who Share In The Group Feeling Can Have 'House' and Nobility

Ibn Khaldun

The Four Generation Rule

Ibn Khaldun

Group Feeling and Royal Authority

Ibn Khaldun

Meekness and Docility to Outsiders are Obstacles to Royal Authority

Ibn Khaldun

A Qualification For Royal Authority Is The Eager Desire To Acquire Praiseworthy Qualities

Ibn Khaldun

A Savage Nation has a wider royal authority

Ibn Khaldun

The passing of the royal authority

Ibn Khaldun

The Vanquished Always Want To Imitate The Victor

Ibn Khaldun

Places that succumb to the Arabs are quickly ruined

Ibn Khaldun

The Arabs are most remote from royal leadership

Ibn Khaldun