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Ibn Khaldun and the Canon of Political Thinkers

Vagelis Papakonstantinou
Working Paper · September 2026

A reading of Ibn Khaldun as an original, systematic political thinker, focusing on government and its legitimacy. The paper examines asabiyyah (‘group feeling’) as an alternative to Social Contract theory: a collective bond through which a group supports and sustains its government.