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Selected accounts of kinship, allies and royal authority distinguish gaining rule from keeping it, and both from its possible decline.
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Guided course · Module 8 · Lesson 41
Can a society explain its own changes?
Ibn Khaldun explains how solidarity, asabiyya, can carry a group to power, and how success changes a ruler’s relationships. What evidence could support this explanation of political change?