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Ibn Khaldun explains how solidarity can support political power and how success changes the relationships that sustain it. What evidence would support that explanation?
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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?