Podcasts about Ibn Khaldun

Michael Cook, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and author of A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity, joins the show to discuss the sudden, explosive Arab expansion of the 7th century.  ▪️ Times      •     01:46 Introduction     •     03:05 Sources     •     04:42 War and politics        •     07:32 Grass and sand       •     09:30 Self-defense         •     12:21 Ibn Khaldun      •     16:11 An Arab identity       •     18:45 Knock on effects        •     26:40 Two targets      •     28:32 The Arab way of war       •     34:50 Coming out of the desert        •     38:48 Civil war      •     42:27 Jihad Follow along on Instagram, X @schoolofwarpod, and YouTube @SchoolofWarPodcast Find a transcript of today's episode on our School of War Substack

Happy new year, friends, and welcome to our first episode of 2025! We are continuing Season Two with Ibn Khaldun, a medieval historian who was fascinated by the way societies function. Telling us his story is Professor Gabriel Martinez-Gros, one of France's most renowned experts of Islam.   The episode explores Ibn Khaldun's life and the context in which he wrote. It also examines the cyclical nature of history he proposed, which goes something like this. States are built around a violent minority that subdues the majority sedentary population. Eventually these violent groups, who in Ibn Khaldoun's time were nomads or Bedouin, soften and become more and more like the sedentary population they rule. In other words, these wolves become like the sheep they govern – so to maintain control of the state, they have to call on new wolves to help them. These new violent groups first support, and then supplant, the old elite.   The discussion highlights how Ibn Khaldun's insights into the complicated relationship between the authorities and society remain pertinent today, especially in light of contemporary challenges.

Grand penseur maghrébin du 14ème siècle, Ibn Khaldun est principalement connu pour sa théorie politique du rôle de l'État. La population est divisée en deux catégories, les "sédentaires" qui payent l'impôt et attendent en retour protection et prospérité de l'État, et les "bédouins" qui exercent le contrôle de l'État par l'intermédiaire de la violence et des solidarités de clan. Grand spécialiste d'Ibn Khaldun, Gabriel Martinez-Gros publie une anthologie commentée des textes de l'auteur, un projet qui n'avait pas été entrepris jusqu'à présent. Son recueil permet de mieux saisir la pensée d'Ibn Khaldun et de discuter de sa pertinence aujourd'hui. Hébergé par Ausha. Visitez ausha.co/politique-de-confidentialite pour plus d'informations.

This talk explores the enduring relevance of medieval Arab philosopher Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406), often regarded as the father of sociology and historiography. His magnum opus, the Muqaddimah (1377), written nearly 650 years ago, has significantly influenced both Islamic and Western traditions. Ibn Khaldun's ideas on social solidarity (assabiyah) and the interconnected dynamics of power, economic development, and social justice in his Circle of Equity are especially pertinent today. The lecture reprises a talk delivered at COP-28 at the DIFC, offering insights from Ibn Khaldun and other thinkers such as Adam Smith on addressing contemporary poly-crises, including climate change, inequality, and broader human challenges. The speaker will explore how these historical perspectives can inform our responses to today's most pressing issues. Speaker Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar, Chairman, Leadership Council of the Malaysia International Islamic Finance Centre (MIFC); Chairman of the Board of Directors of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)

Alex speaks with Elias Khalil about the influential ideas of Ibn Khaldun, delving into Khaldun's theories on the rise and fall of civilizations, the nature of political communities, and the importance of solidarity (Asabiyya). Khalil connects these insights to classical liberal thought and the works of Adam Smith, emphasizing Khaldun's impact on understanding political order as a product of social dynamics rather than divine intervention. References 1. "The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History" by Ibn Khaldun, translated by Franz Rosenthal Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Muqaddimah-Introduction-History-Ibn-Khaldun/dp/0691166285 2. “Ibn Khaldoun and Adam Smith—Two Heroes of the Modern Age.” https://www.adamsmithworks.org/documents/ibnkhaldoun-and-adam-smith (Liberty Fund), 11 November 2020; 3. “Ibn Khaldûn on Property Rights, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History.” Journal of Institutional Economics, August 2007, 3:2, pp. 227-238. (It includes a long excerpt (pp. 233-238) from Ibn Khaldûn's The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History.) http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1744137407000677 4. "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" by Adam Smith Link: https://a.co/d/j7XuEp4 5. "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith Link: https://www.amazon.ca/Wealth-Nations-Adam-Smith/dp/1505577128   

Get access to The Backroom Exclusive episodes on Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/OneDime⁠ In this episode of 1Dime Radio, I am joined by Keegan Kjeldsen, host of The Nietzsche Podcast/Untimely Reflections, to talk about the powerful complementary insights between Nietzsche and Machiavelli, as well as other thinkers such as Karl Marx and Ibn Khaldun. We also discuss the ways in which Nietzsche's work is often misunderstood, appropriated, or diluted by people on the right and left. In The Backroom segment on Patreon, Keegan and I critique Jordan Peterson's understanding of Nietzsche and the ways in which popular “Petersonian” YouTube channels such as “Academy of Ideas” and “Thoughts on Thinking” distort Nietzche. It was an exhilarating episode; you don't want to miss it! Timestamps:  00:00 Preview of The Backroom Segment  03:01 The Red Pill Trio 04:21 The Science of Politics & Power 12:40 Nietzsche and Ibn Khaldun: The Collective Will to Power 28:19 Religion and Morality 39:14 Slave Morality and Resentment 50:09 Nietzsche's Critique of Capitalism & Democracy 01:06:27 Weakness Corrupts, Not Power 01:26:24 Machiavelli as the Founder of Managed Democracy 01:46:50 Jordan Peterson Doesn't Understand Nietzsche  Read More with Speechify: https://share.speechify.com/mzrxH5D Check out The Nietzche Podcast/Untimley Reflections, on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@untimelyreflections Follow me on X:  https://x.com/1DimeOfficial Check out the 1Dime video essays if you haven't already: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@1Dimee/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Outro Music by Karl Casey

It is an age-old question: can we learn from history? Yes! says distinguished political scientist Roman Krznaric in his new book, which looks at the past for inspiration for building a better future. From striking low-caste women in Kerala to Suffragettes in Great Britain, from the first explosion of capitalism in 17-century Amsterdam to the rise of AI and from Ibn Khaldun to an ancient water authority in Spain, he shows that we are often stuck in a constructed version of history and that the true diversity of different pasts and experiments in living throughout the ages and the continents hold lessons we will need for our survival. A fascinating account.

+++ Urlaubsfolge: Wir sind im Urlaub, deshalb bekommt ihr diese Woche die erste Folge aus unserer 6 Folgen umfassenden Kampagnenstaffel zu den grausamen Feldzügen des gefürchteten Tataren Timur Lenk. Diese Kampagne ist exklusiv für Supporter auf Steady erschienen. +++ Wir beginnen eine neue Kampagnenstaffel und besprechen die Gräueltaten von Timur Lenk. Timur der Lahme« (das ist die Bedeutung von Timur Lenk) war einer der erfolgreichsten und zugleich grausamsten Eroberer Zentralasiens. Viereinhalb Jahrzehnte lang – von 1360 bis zu seinem Tod 1405 – nahm er mit seinen Nomadenhorden weite Gebiete von der Mongolei im Osten bis zum östlichen Mittelmeer im Westen ein. Timur Lenk gründete das Timuridenreich in und um das heutige Afghanistan, Iran und Zentralasien. Als unbesiegter Feldherr gilt er als einer der größten militärischen Führer und Taktiker der Geschichte, aber auch als einer der brutalsten und tödlichsten. Timur gilt auch als großer Förderer von Kunst und Architektur, da er mit Intellektuellen wie Ibn Khaldun, Hafez und Hafiz-i Abru verkehrte und seine Herrschaft die timuridische Renaissance einführte. Timur, der in den 1320er Jahren in die türkisierte Barlas-Konföderation in Transoxiana (im heutigen Usbekistan) hineingeboren wurde, erlangte bis 1370 die Kontrolle über das westliche Chagatai-Khanat. Von dort aus führte er Feldzüge durch West-, Süd- und Zentralasien, den Kaukasus und Südrussland und besiegte dabei die Khane der Goldenen Horde, die Mamelucken in Ägypten und Syrien, das aufstrebende Osmanische Reich sowie das späte Sultanat von Delhi in Indien und wurde so zum mächtigsten Herrscher der muslimischen Welt. Mit diesen Eroberungen gründete er das Timuridenreich, das kurz nach seinem Tod wieder zerbrach. Historiker:innen schätzen, dass seine Feldzüge den Tod von Millionen von Menschen verursachten, weshalb seine Feldzüge in aller Regel als Völkermorde eingestuft werden. Wir spielen in dieser Folge die Geschichte von Timur Lenk bis zu dem Zeitpunkt nach, an dem er sich selbst zum Emir von ganz Transoxanien ernennt. Wir wünschen euch viel Spaß beim Hören! Felix & Christian Unsere HP: www.startthegamealready.de Unser Discord: discord.com/invite/SYp9dCXYsK Ihr möchtet mehr Podcasts von uns? Dann werdet hier zu Unterstützer:innen: steadyhq.com/startthegamealready/ Timecodes: 00:00 Wer ist Timur Lenk? 10:58 Missionseinstieg 17:13 Startsituation 21:00 Toktamisch 37:01 Missionsablauf 45:30 Missionsende Musik: Tataren Intro Musik vom offiziellen AoE 2 Soundtrack und Einspieler aus der Timur Lenk Kampagne. Age of Empires II © Microsoft Corporation. This content was created under Microsoft's "Game Content Usage Rules" using assets from Age of Empires II, and it is not endorsed by or affiliated with Microsoft.

We're taking it easy! In episode 103 of Overthink, Ellie and David take a leisurely dive into laziness, discussing everything from couchrotting to the biology of energy conservation. They explore Devon Price's idea of the ‘laziness lie' in today's hyperproductive society and search for alternatives to work through Paul Lefargue's 19th century campaign for ‘the right to be lazy.' They also look into the racialization of laziness in Ibn Khaldun and Montesquieu's ideas on the idle tropics, and think through how the Protestant work ethic punishes laziness, even when technology could take care of the work.Patreon | ptreon.com/overthinkpodcast Website | overthinkpodcast.comInstagram & Twitter | @overthink_podEmail |  Dearoverthink@gmail.comYouTube | Overthink podcast Works DiscussedDevon Price, Laziness Does Not ExistBarthes, “Let us dare to be lazy”Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal ExperienceJared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and SteelChristine Jeske, The Laziness MythIbn Khaldun, MuqaddimahPaul Lefargue, The Right to be LazyKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist ManifestoMontesquieu, The Spirit of the LawsMax Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of CapitalismSupport the Show.

Listen to Part 2 (the backroom) and other exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime⁠ In this episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast, I am joined by Professor Sabah Alnasseri, a professor of Middle Eastern Studies at York University, to discuss Ibn Khaldun and his classic text, The Muqaddimah. In particular, we discuss Ibn Khaldun's similarities with Karl Marx as a social scientist and a proto-historical materialist. Sabbah and I share a Marxist interpretation of The Muqaddimah that demystifies Ibn Khaldun's materialist class analysis and misconceptions surrounding his key concepts such as "Royal Authority," "Asabiyyah," and more. Simultaneously a philosopher, historian, and often considered a father of modern economics as well as an early trailblazer of what would eventually become the discipline of sociology. Ibn Khaldun was among the first proper social scientists to develop a holistic "science of society" - something quite close to what we today call "historical materialism." Part 2 (the backroom) is on the applicaton of Ibn Khaldun's thought to the current state of contemporary imperialist powers (like the US, Israel) in the face of an emerging multipolar world with Russia, China, and BRICS playing a larger role in the face of declining US Hegemony.  Get Access to it and other exclusive backroom episodes on Patreon at Patreon.com/OneDime  Sabah Alnasseri's Interview with Chris Heges: https://youtu.be/q6qCHCffV-I?si=YD7Q0UE7dH5h_uqS Follow Sabah Alnasseri on Twitter:https://twitter.com/AlnasseriSabah My Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/1DimeOfficial⁠ Read more texts faster with Speechify: ⁠⁠https://speechify.com/?source=fb-for-mobile&via=1Dime

Get access to Part 2 and more exclusive episodes on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/OneDime⁠ This episode of the 1Dime Radio podcast is all about the ideas of Ibn Khaldun and his classic text The Muqaddimah. Simultaneously a philosopher and a historian, and often considered to be "the first sociologist," Ibn Khaldun was among the first proper "social scientists" to develop a "science of society" - something quite close to what we today call "historical materialism." What insights can the work of a 14th century Medieval Arab thinker give us often today? Quite a lot, actually. Ibn Khaldun's insights on the cyclical rise and decline of civilizations, political power, religion, "Royal Authority" and his famous (but misunderstood) concept of "Assabiyah" ("Group feeling"), were not only ahead of his time, but also have a lot to teach us today. To unpack the key ideas of Ibn Khaldun and discuss interpretations of The Muqaddimah, I am joined by professor Adnan Husain, a historian at Queens University who specializes in Middle Eastern history and Medieval European history. He is also the co-host of the Guerilla History podcast with Breht O'Shea from Revolutionary Left Radio In part two of the podcast (the backroom) on Patreon, Adnan and I discuss the ambiguities surrounding Ibn Khaldun's Writing and problems with popular interpretations of his work, such as that of Robert Irwin. In it, I ask Adnan's opinion on my hypothesis (articulated in a paper that will eventually get published) that Ibn Khaldun's apparent "contradictions" and instances of "Platonism" (which problematize his generally materialist system) may not be unaccounted contradictions, but deliberate acts of "esoteric writing" to avoid persecution, a method of reading texts "between the lines" popularized by Leo Strauss in his seminal text "Persecution and the Art of Writing." Check it out at patreon.com/onedime ! Follow Adnan Hussein on Twitter: https://twitter.com/adnanahusain My Twitter: https://twitter.com/1DimeOfficial Read more texts faster with Speechify: ⁠https://speechify.com/?source=fb-for-mobile&via=1Dime

This podcast features Dr. Syed Farid Alatas, a Professor at the National University of Singapore. He shares his insights on 'Revisiting Ibn Khaldun's View of Khidma,' offering valuable commentary on the topic based on his presentation at the ILN 10th International Conference on Peace and Prosperity in Muslim Majority Countries and Beyond, held in Kuala Lumpur on 5th-6th September 2023.

This podcast features Dr. Muhammad Khalid Masud, former Chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology, Pakistan. He delivers a keynote address on 'Un-productive Labour: Revisiting Ibn Khaldun's View of Khidma.' Drawing from his wealth of experience, he explores the topic based on his presentation at the ILN 10th International Conference on Peace and Prosperity in Muslim Majority Countries and Beyond, held in Kuala Lumpur on 5th-6th September 2023. 

Today with @DougAMacgregor we venture into an enlightening discourse on the Arabic term 'asadiyah', ('asabiyyah') concept of social cohesion and group solidarity. Borrowing from the wisdom of esteemed Arab historian Ibn Khaldun, we dissect the resurgence of this ideology in the Arab world as a counter to the ongoing conflict. We explore how this unity among historically divided states and people signals a strategic shift that could prolong the conflict. Don't miss out on this compelling narrative on the Gaza conflict.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Como o movimento cypherpunk e o libertarianismo fazem parte do caminho até à criação do Bitcoin. Quais são os princípios da ética libertária? O que é o PNA? Como Bitcoin é uma ferramenta para dar força ao indivíduo. Tentativa de análise do conflito em Israel sob a ótica da ética libertária. Conversa publicada originalmente 2 de novembro de 2023. Entre israel e palestina quem tem razão? - Ancapsu Classics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVPwadxMb1U Boa explicação do conflito com legenda em Português: https://youtu.be/XNf40sBcvKk Sobre o Nakba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8bkqqvoGpc Leitura recomendada: - Kitāb al-ʻIbar de Ibn Khaldun - pelo menos o livro 1: "Muqaddimah" - Declaração de Independência de Israel - A Cartilha do Hamas - O Antigo Testamento - O Corão Perguntas? Dúvidas? Não deixe de comentar! 00:00 Introdução 02:33 Pré-história do Bitcoin: O Movimento Cypherpunk abrindo caminho para Satoshi Nakamoto 05:24 Os ataques do Estado as liberdade individuais dos indivíduos e o Bitcoin como arma de auto-defesa 06:46 A Base da Ética Libertária e como se complementa com o Bitcoin 11:32 A crescente do uso de USDT no Brasil e mundo e suas diferenças ao BTC 13:42 Estamos caminhando para um mundo de pessoas libertárias? 14:40 Ética Libertária: Origem, definição e o direito de retaliação 19:43 A história não contada do afluxo de judeus de volta à Israel antes da fundação do Estado atual e os conflitos com os povos vizinhos 29:40 Como surgiu e se aplica o PNA em casos como o de Israel versus Hamas? 37:54 A preocupação da crescente do radicalismo islâmico e antissemitismo ao redor do mundo - A repetição de ciclos 46:27 Israel conseguirá tomar o controle da Faixa de Gaza e o que faria depois? 50:22 Quem está por trás dos ataques do Hamas à Israel? 55:14 Um mundo multipolar seria melhor atualmente? - O que está acontecendo com os Estados Unidos e a esquerda americana globalista? 59:51 O bitcoin terá chances de ser útil em um mundo em guerra? - O Brasil está do lado certo? 01:05:43 O ódio e ataques da esquerda aos indivíduos de forma descarada sendo mostrados contra os judeus 01:12:12 A situação em Gaza não será nada fácil de se resolver e o futuro será incerto no Oriente Médio Gravado no bloco 814877 ________________ APOIE O CANAL https://bitcoinheiros.com/apoie/ ⚡ln@pay.bitcoinheiros.com Loja dos Bitcoinheiros https://loja.bitcoinheiros.com/ Escute no Fountain Podcasts (https://fountain.fm/join-fountain) para receber e enviar satoshinhos no modelo Value4Value SIGA OS BITCOINHEIROS: Site: https://www.bitcoinheiros.com Youtube:  https://www.youtube.com/bitcoinheiros  Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/bitcoinheiros Allan - https://www.twitter.com/allanraicher Dov - https://twitter.com/bitdov Becas - https://twitter.com/bksbk6 Ivan - https://twitter.com/bitofsilence Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bitcoinheiros Facebook: https://www.fb.com/bitcoinheiros Podcast: https://anchor.fm/bitcoinheiros COMO GUARDAR SEUS BITCOINS? Bitcoinheiros recomendam o uso de carteiras Multisig com Hardware Wallets de diferentes fabricantes ou próprias. Para ver as carteiras de hardware que recomendamos, acesse https://www.bitcoinheiros.com/carteiras Veja os descontos e clique nos links de afiliados para ajudar o canal Por exemplo, para a COLDCARD - https://store.coinkite.com/promo/bitcoinheiros Com o código "bitcoinheiros" você ganha 5% de desconto na ColdCard Playlist "Canivete Suíço Bitcoinheiro" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgcVYwONyxmg-KH5bwzMU4sdyMbVMPqwb Playlist "Carteiras Multisig de Bitcoin" https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgcVYwONyxmi74PiIUSnGieNIPqmtmdjW ISENÇÃO DE RESPONSABILIDADE: Este conteúdo foi preparado para fins meramente informativos. NÃO é uma recomendação financeira nem de investimento. As opiniões apresentadas são apenas opiniões. Faça sua própria pesquisa. Não nos responsabilizamos por qualquer decisão de investimento que você tomar ou ação que você executar inspirada em nossos vídeos. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/bitcoinheiros/message

Jens Kurt Heycke was educated in Economics and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago, the London School of Economics, and Princeton University. He worked as an early employee and executive in several successful technology startups, including one that pioneered the mobile Internet and produced software installed in more than a billion mobile phones. Since retiring from high tech, he has worked as a writer and independent researcher, conducting field research around the world, from Bosnia to Botswana. He is an internationally competitive masters cyclist, winning a bronze medal at the World Masters Games and top-ten places in other world championship events. On this episode, Jens shares his one way ticket to a future America that fully realizes the melting pot ideal. Plus, he shares ideas and introduces us to historical figures as outlined in his book: “Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire: Multiculturalism in the World's Past and America's Future”. These include: Ibn Khaldun, the 14th century North African father of sociology who introduced the notion of “asabiyah”, which scholars have translated to mean “social cohesion”, “group consciousness” or “esprit de corps”, and how without it, a nation falls apart How a melting pot has always been a two-way process whereby immigrants adopt to the nation and the nation adopts to immigrants Soft Multiculturalism which fits into the melting pot paradigm where cultures are respected and welcomed vs. Hard Multicultural or Multicultural Particularism where every ethnicity needs to remain separate, thereby not allowing for a shared culture Examples of countries that adopted “asabiyah” to great success including, Botswana and Singapore and eventually after its horrific genocide, Rwanda Examples of countries that pitted one ethnic group against another to disastrous effect, including Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, and Sri Lanka Ethnic opportunists Questioning DEI (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion) programs and whether there are measures in place to quantify their success How ethnic unity promotes economic success History indicating how pitting one group against another is bad policy.  Jens believes the answer to segregation isn't more segregation, which he believes is a path we're currently going down in the US. To remedy this, he calls for: Ending group distinctions, ceasing to pit one group against another, national team building exercises (borrowing from the “umaganda” example in Rwanda), and a type of national service program to foster social cohesion.  

In this episode J.J. and Dr. Lenn Goodman discuss Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed, and the challenges of a brand new translation. Also: What Strauss, Pines, and the UChicago school of interpretation got wrong.For more fantastic Jewish content follow Torah in Motion on instagram or visit torahinmotion.orgLenn E. Goodman is Professor of Philosophy and Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He was honored with the Baumgardt Prize of the American Philosophical Association, and with a volume in Brill Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophy. He is a rare humanities winner of the Sutherland Prize, Vanderbilt University's highest research award. Goodman's book-length contributions in Jewish philosophy include The Holy One of Israel (2019), Judaism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation (2017), Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself, his Gifford Lectures (2008), Judaism, Human Rights & Human Values (1998), God of Abraham (1996, which won the Gratz Centennial Prize), Judaism, Human Rights & Human Values (1998), and On Justice: An Essay in Jewish Philosophy (2008). Goodman has also written extensively on Islamic philosophy, including work on Razi, Farabi, Avicenna, Ghazali, Ibn Tufayl, and Ibn Khaldun. His books in general philosophy include In Defense of Truth, Coming to Mind: The Soul and its Body (co-authored with D. Greg Caramenico), Religious Pluralism and Values in the Public Sphere, and Creation and Evolution. Goodman has lectured widely, in Oxford, Jerusalem, Taiwan, Morocco, and in many venues in the United States and Canada. His new translation/commentary of Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed (co-authored with Phillip Lieberman), and a companion volume of his own titled A Guide to Maimonides' Guide to the Perplexed, will be published by Stanford University Press early in 2024. He is now at work on a new book titled God and Truth.

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Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This is part 2 of 2.Adnan Husain is both a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian. His early work focused on religious phenomena and social imagination in Medieval Catholicism and Islam, particularly on Franciscan spiritual and Sufi mystical traditions. He now principally studies and teaches on the cross-cultural and inter-religious encounters among the Muslims, Christians and Jews of Latin Christendom and the Islamic world in the Mediterranean zone from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries. He is also a host Guerrilla History and The Majlis podcasts. We talk about Ibn Khaldun.  Ibn Khaldun was an Arab proto-sociologist, philosopher, and historian generally acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages. He made major contributions in the areas of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography.Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   Crew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesLinks and Social Media:twitter: @skepoetFacebookYou can find the additional streams on Youtube Support the show

Please support our patreon.  For early and ad-free episodes, members-only content, and more.This is part 1 of 2. Adnan Husain is both a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian. His early work focused on religious phenomena and social imagination in Medieval Catholicism and Islam, particularly on Franciscan spiritual and Sufi mystical traditions. He now principally studies and teaches on the cross-cultural and inter-religious encounters among the Muslims, Christians and Jews of Latin Christendom and the Islamic world in the Mediterranean zone from the tenth to the fifteenth centuries. He is also a host Guerrilla History and The Majlis podcasts. We talk about Ibn Khaldun.  Ibn Khaldun was an Arab proto-sociologist, philosopher, and historian generally acknowledged to be one of the greatest social scientists of the Middle Ages. He made major contributions in the areas of historiography, sociology, economics, and demography.Abandon all hope ye who subscribe here.   Crew:Host: C. Derick VarnAudio Producer: Paul Channel Strip  ( @aufhebenkultur )Intro and Outro Music by Bitter Lake.Intro Video Design: Jason MylesLinks and Social Media:twitter: @skepoetFacebookYou can find the additional streams on Youtube Support the show

Peter Turchin has continued the work of Ibn Khaldun, by elaborating upon Khaldun's hypotheses and testing them against the wealth of historical data that we now possess. By means of a structural demographic analysis of historical empires, Turchin has worked for years to generate mathematical models in order to explain the trends that seem to recur in every complex society. Now, with the data of 10,000 years of human activity on the group level, it may be possible to finally move beyond the preliminary, pseudo-scientific steps of the discipline of history, and proceed into a truly mathematized phase. This is the discipline that Turchin calls "Cliodynamics", after the Muse of history of Ancient Greece. His intention to leave behind the anthropological and archaeological studies that characterized history in the past, and bring mathematics into the field so that we can begin to make predictions. The reason why many have been so resistant to this development is our belief in free will, and the unpredictability of human action. Turchin thinks that this is a mistake, because while individual decisions are often unpredictable at the individual, granular level, at the level of entire populations or demographics, human beings become rather predictable. Quite in line with the cyclical view of history postulated by Plato, Thucydides, or Nietzsche, Turchin brings the math to demonstrate the truth of their ideas: that, in the realm of human history, all returns eternally. For our sources today, we're primarily using Turchin's books: War and Peace and War, Ultrasociety, and a brief dip at the end into the overall idea of Ages of Discord, as well as some references to Secular Cycles by Turchin and Nefedov. We'll also include a number of quotes from Roman historians Livy, Plutarch and others, as we examine the period of the Roman Republic, the chaos of the Late Republic and the transition to the Principate, as explained by Turchin's structural-demographic theory. This should be fun, given that we've already considered these events somewhat through the eyes of Machiavelli. Now, we can approach the subject with more rigor. In my view, Turchin is following in the traditions of these thinkers, but developing their work further. Episode art is Thomas Cole's now famous "Destruction" piece of his cycle, "The Course of Empire".

Escape the Matrix, Tate to Ibn Khaldun

From all accounts, Nietzsche did not read nor comment upon the work of Ibn Khaldun, outside of a few remarks from Schopenhauer in one of his essays that Nietzsche might have read. But what we find in his Muqaddimah is a theory of cyclical history, in which many of the key principles of Nietzsche's political philosophy would find agreement. Ibn Khaldun was a historian from North Africa whose work sought to explain why it was that the same pattern seemed to repeat ad infinitum. The Bedouin desert tribes would overwhelm one of the settled cities of the Mediterranean, from time to time, then establish a new city there. For a time, the culture of the new city would be like that of the Bedouins in the desert. But, eventually, a sedentary culture set in, over the course of several generations, and the inhabitants grew complacent, became incompetent, and eventually found themselves overthrown by another desert tribe, and the process would then repeat. In his studies, Khaldun arrives at the concept of asabiya, or the capacity for collective power, which can be very useful for a Nietzschean perspective on social power structures. This concept of asabiya means, literally, 'group feeling', and describes the extent to which the individuals feel themselves to part of a unified, coherent group, and are thus able to act as instruments of the group, and coordinate their actions as a team. Asabiya increases in harsh conditions, and declines in conditions of luxury, and thus the cycle of empires is set into motion - "This is how God proceeds with His creatures." Just as Nietzsche suggests the idea of all things returning eternally, Khaldun's writing brings this idea into the historical and political sphere. But Ibn Khaldun is significant because he presents this not only as a poetical idea, but as a pattern based on observable facts. There are many, many observations and anecdotes in the Muqaddimah, and we will not be able to cover it all, so we shall focus on the points most relevant to the ideas covered this season. This will be our first journey into a work outside the Western Canon, into one of the most important thinkers of the Near East. Join me in exploring the dynamics of history, as we jump into the basic ideas of the Muqaddimah. 

The most disruptive and transformative event in the Middle Ages wasn't the Crusades, the Battle of Agincourt, or even the Black Death. It was the Mongol Conquests. Even after his death, Genghis Khan's Mongol Empire grew to become the largest in history—four times the size of Alexander the Great's and stretching from the Pacific to the Mediterranean. But the extent to which these conquering invasions and subsequent Mongol rule transformed the diverse landscape of the medieval Near East have been understated in our understanding of the modern world.Today's guest is Nicholas Morton, author of “The Mongol Storm: Making and Breaking Empires in the Middle East.” We discuss the overlapping connections of religion, architecture, trade, philosophy and ideas that reformed over a century of Mongol rule. Rather than a Euro- or even Mongol-centric perspective, this history uniquely examines the Mongol invasions from the multiple perspectives of the network of peoples of the Near East and travelers from all directions—including famous figures of this era such as Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta, Ibn Khaldun, and Roger Bacon, who observed and reported on the changing region to their respective cultures—and the impacted peoples of empires—Byzantine, Seljuk and then Ottoman Turks, Ayyubid, Armenian, and more—under the violence of conquest.

This week, the guys are joined by Associate Professor of Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy at Michigan State University's James Madison College, Dr. Waseem El-Rayes. The group discuss Ibn Khaldun's sweeping historical work, Muqaddimah. Topics include theocracy, the origins of political power, history, and more!

A history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East, Nomads in the Middle East by Beatrice Forbes Manz (Cambridge University Press, 2021) charts the rise of nomadic power from the formation of Islam through the Middle Ages, when Mongols and Turks ruled most of the region, to the decline of nomadic power in the twentieth century. Offering a vivid insight into the impact of nomads on the politics, culture, and ideology of the region, Beatrice Forbes Manz examines and challenges existing perceptions of these nomads, including the popular cyclical model of nomad-settled interaction developed by Ibn Khaldun. Looking at both the Arab Bedouin and the nomads from the Eurasian steppe, Manz demonstrates the significance of Bedouin and Turco-Mongolian contributions to cultural production and political ideology in the Middle East, and shows the central role played by pastoral nomads in war, trade, and state-building throughout history. Nomads provided horses and soldiers for war, the livestock and guidance which made long-distance trade possible, and animal products to provision the region's growing cities. Maggie Freeman is a PhD student in the School of Architecture at MIT. She researches uses of architecture by nomadic peoples and historical interactions of nomads and empires, with a focus on the modern Middle East. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

A history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East, Nomads in the Middle East by Beatrice Forbes Manz (Cambridge University Press, 2021) charts the rise of nomadic power from the formation of Islam through the Middle Ages, when Mongols and Turks ruled most of the region, to the decline of nomadic power in the twentieth century. Offering a vivid insight into the impact of nomads on the politics, culture, and ideology of the region, Beatrice Forbes Manz examines and challenges existing perceptions of these nomads, including the popular cyclical model of nomad-settled interaction developed by Ibn Khaldun. Looking at both the Arab Bedouin and the nomads from the Eurasian steppe, Manz demonstrates the significance of Bedouin and Turco-Mongolian contributions to cultural production and political ideology in the Middle East, and shows the central role played by pastoral nomads in war, trade, and state-building throughout history. Nomads provided horses and soldiers for war, the livestock and guidance which made long-distance trade possible, and animal products to provision the region's growing cities. Maggie Freeman is a PhD student in the School of Architecture at MIT. She researches uses of architecture by nomadic peoples and historical interactions of nomads and empires, with a focus on the modern Middle East. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

A history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East, Nomads in the Middle East by Beatrice Forbes Manz (Cambridge University Press, 2021) charts the rise of nomadic power from the formation of Islam through the Middle Ages, when Mongols and Turks ruled most of the region, to the decline of nomadic power in the twentieth century. Offering a vivid insight into the impact of nomads on the politics, culture, and ideology of the region, Beatrice Forbes Manz examines and challenges existing perceptions of these nomads, including the popular cyclical model of nomad-settled interaction developed by Ibn Khaldun. Looking at both the Arab Bedouin and the nomads from the Eurasian steppe, Manz demonstrates the significance of Bedouin and Turco-Mongolian contributions to cultural production and political ideology in the Middle East, and shows the central role played by pastoral nomads in war, trade, and state-building throughout history. Nomads provided horses and soldiers for war, the livestock and guidance which made long-distance trade possible, and animal products to provision the region's growing cities. Maggie Freeman is a PhD student in the School of Architecture at MIT. She researches uses of architecture by nomadic peoples and historical interactions of nomads and empires, with a focus on the modern Middle East. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/islamic-studies

A history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East, Nomads in the Middle East by Beatrice Forbes Manz (Cambridge University Press, 2021) charts the rise of nomadic power from the formation of Islam through the Middle Ages, when Mongols and Turks ruled most of the region, to the decline of nomadic power in the twentieth century. Offering a vivid insight into the impact of nomads on the politics, culture, and ideology of the region, Beatrice Forbes Manz examines and challenges existing perceptions of these nomads, including the popular cyclical model of nomad-settled interaction developed by Ibn Khaldun. Looking at both the Arab Bedouin and the nomads from the Eurasian steppe, Manz demonstrates the significance of Bedouin and Turco-Mongolian contributions to cultural production and political ideology in the Middle East, and shows the central role played by pastoral nomads in war, trade, and state-building throughout history. Nomads provided horses and soldiers for war, the livestock and guidance which made long-distance trade possible, and animal products to provision the region's growing cities. Maggie Freeman is a PhD student in the School of Architecture at MIT. She researches uses of architecture by nomadic peoples and historical interactions of nomads and empires, with a focus on the modern Middle East. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/middle-eastern-studies

A history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East, Nomads in the Middle East by Beatrice Forbes Manz (Cambridge University Press, 2021) charts the rise of nomadic power from the formation of Islam through the Middle Ages, when Mongols and Turks ruled most of the region, to the decline of nomadic power in the twentieth century. Offering a vivid insight into the impact of nomads on the politics, culture, and ideology of the region, Beatrice Forbes Manz examines and challenges existing perceptions of these nomads, including the popular cyclical model of nomad-settled interaction developed by Ibn Khaldun. Looking at both the Arab Bedouin and the nomads from the Eurasian steppe, Manz demonstrates the significance of Bedouin and Turco-Mongolian contributions to cultural production and political ideology in the Middle East, and shows the central role played by pastoral nomads in war, trade, and state-building throughout history. Nomads provided horses and soldiers for war, the livestock and guidance which made long-distance trade possible, and animal products to provision the region's growing cities. Maggie Freeman is a PhD student in the School of Architecture at MIT. She researches uses of architecture by nomadic peoples and historical interactions of nomads and empires, with a focus on the modern Middle East. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SPEAKER:Prof. Stephen Dale is an Emeritus Professor of South Asian and Islamic History at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio USA. He has written books on Kerala (Islamic Society on the South Asian Frontier, The Mappilas of Malabar, 1498-1922 , Babur (The Garden of the Eight Paradises, Babur and the Culture of Empire in Centra Asia, Afghanistan and India, 1483-1530, ,The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals, The Orange Trees of Marrakesh, Ibn Khaldun and the Science of Man Babur, Timurid Prince and Mughal Emperor. He first came to India on a Fulbright Teaching grant in 1963, when he met Jawaharlal Nehru along with several other Fulbright grantees. Later he visited India many times, living in Kozhikode, Kerala and Chennai, and traveling in different parts of the country.  He was most recently in India in 2020,  with his wife, when he spoke on Babur at the Jaipur Literary Festival.EXPLORE MORE:Find out about upcoming sessions and learn how you can join them live and become a part of the conversation - https://www.argumentativeindians.comDISCLAIMER:We invite thought leaders from across the ideological spectrum. The guests in our sessions express their independent views and opinions. Argumentative Indians do not profess to subscribe, agree or endorse the same or be in any way responsible for the stance, words, and comments of our guests.Explore More at - www.argumentativeindians.comDISCLAIMER:We invite thought leaders from across the ideological spectrum. The guests in our sessions express their independent views and opinions. Argumentative Indians does not profess to subscribe, agree or endorse the same or be in anyway responsible for the stance, words and comments of our guests.

Professor Malik Mufti, a specialist on the politics and international relations of the Middle East, discusses two medieval Muslim works of exemplary scholarship and erudition. Like many other Muslim works of the Middle Ages, the two works were greatly influenced by Greek and Roman literature that had become available in translation or, to very educated scholars, in the original texts. Both the anonymous mid-9th century manual on war and the works of Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) show an aversion to simplistic principles devised for the conduct of war and emphasise the need to tailor responses to each conflict with its own configuration. Ibn Khaldun especially emphasises the need to factor in contingency and unpredictable events, and that, by using their own discernment and reason, the commander must seek to make the best of each situation. Thus, it is not surprising that both authors have no time for any notion of fate or kismet, but focus instead on the commander's skills and talents, and on the ability of humans to influence events in the interest of protecting and extending a virtuous Islamic Empire – a tolerant republic modelled on ancient Persia in which multiple civilisations could thrive. Professor Malik Mufti completed a PhD at Harvard and teaches at Tufts University in the US. He is the author of Sovereign Creations: Pan-Arabism and Political Order in Syria and Iraq (1996), Daring and Caution in Turkish Strategic Culture (2009), and The Art of Jihad: Realism in Islamic Political Thought (2019).

What is Real Education? Ibn Khaldun

Holly and Tracy talk about the gossipy nature of press coverage about men like Rudolph Diesel. The gap between Ibn Khaldūn's life and the time when analysis of his work really began is also discussed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ibn Khaldūn was a Muslim writer who covered history, economics and sociology. He lived during a time of chaos and strife, and his life was mired in the political drama and intrigue of the day. Research:  Alatas, Syed Farid. “Ibn Khaldun.” Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. Oxford University Press. 2012. Albertini, Tamara. “Special Issue: Politics, Nature and Society – The Actuality of North African Philosopher Ibn Khaldūn.” Philosophy East & West Volume 69, Number 3 July 2019. Al-Jubouri, Imadaldin. “Ibn Khaldun and the Philosophy of History.” Philosophy Now. 2005. https://philosophynow.org/issues/50/Ibn_Khaldun_and_the_Philosophy_of_History Gearon, Eamonm. “Turning Points in Middle Eastern History.” The Teaching Company, 2016. "Ibn Khaldun Pioneers the Sociological View of History." Global Events: Milestone Events Throughout History, edited by Jennifer Stock, vol. 5: Middle East, Gale, 2014, pp. 239-243. Gale In Context: Global Issues, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3728000758/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=cf4f6560. Accessed 20 July 2022. "Ibn Khaldūn." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography, vol. 7, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2008, pp. 320-323. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2830902289/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=c1137955. Accessed 20 July 2022. International Horizons with John Torpey. “Ibn Khaldun's the Muqadimah: The Best Book You've Never Read.” With Aziz Al-Azmeh. Podcast. 10/20/2021. https://ralphbuncheinstitute.org/2021/12/20/ibn-khalduns-the-muqadimah-the-best-book-youve-never-read/ Irwin, Robert. “Ibn Kaldun: An Intellectual Biography.” Princeton University Press. 2018. Issawi, Charles. "Ibn Khaldūn". Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 May. 2022, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ibn-Khaldun. Accessed 20 July 2022. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

‘Due to our low tax policy . . . revenue has increased.'John James Cowperthwaite, Hong Kong Financial Secretary, 1961-71Fourteenth-century Tunisian, Ibn Khaldun, is probably the greatest philosopher of the Islamic Golden Age. In his magnum opus, The Muqaddimah, he wrote: ‘In the early stages of an empire, taxes are light in their incidence, but fetch in large revenue. As time passes and kings succeed each other, they lose their tribal habits in favour of more civilised ones. Their needs and exigencies grow . . . owing to the luxury in which they have been brought up. Hence they impose fresh taxes on their subjects . . . and sharply raise the rate of old taxes to increase their yield . . . But the effects on business of this rise in taxation make themselves felt. For businessmen are soon discouraged by the comparison of their profits with the burden of their taxes . . . Consequently, production falls off, and with it the yield of taxation.' Never mind his own Islam, he might have been describing Rome or Greece before, or Britain or the US after. Low taxation and small government accompany the ascent of great civilisations, high taxation and big government their demise.It may be counter-intuitive, but it is an observation that goes back centuries. Low tax rates often bring in greater revenue, while higher tax rates bring in less.Khaldun was not the first to make this observation. It was the guiding philosophy of the fourth caliph, Ali. Take great care, he instructed his governors, ‘to ensure the prosperity of those who pay taxes. The proper upkeep of the land in cultivation is of greater importance than the collection of revenue for revenue cannot be derived unless the land is productive.' If conditions are bad, then suspend taxes, he advised. “Do not mind the loss of revenue on that account, for that will return to you one day manifold in the hour of greater prosperity of the land and enable you to improve the condition of your towns and to raise the prestige of your state.”Hong Kong's John James Cowperthwaite acted by the same philosophy and would always push for the low- or no-tax option. Eventually, ‘funds left in the hands of the public will come into the Exchequer', he said, but ‘with interest'.In 1924, US Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon wrote, ‘It seems difficult for some to understand that high rates of taxation do not necessarily mean large revenue to the government, and that more revenue may often be obtained by lower rates.'But perhaps the most famous proponent of this argument was the American economist Arthur Laffer.In 1974, Laffer was having dinner in Washington DC with two of (recently impeached) President Richard Nixon's former advisers, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, as well as a writer for the Wall Street Journal by the name of Jude Wanniski. Laffer was arguing that the incumbent president Gerald Ford's recent tax increases were flawed and would not lead to increased government revenue. To illustrate his argument, so the story goes, he drew a curve on a napkin showing the relationship between tax rates and revenue. At very low rates of tax, government revenue is low; but it is also low at high rates (because the economy is weaker, profits are down, earnings are down, evasion is higher and so on), so the curve is bell-shaped. The top of the bell is the point of maximum revenue – that is, the sweet spot at which to place tax rates if your goal is to maximise government revenue. Laffer's argument caught the imagination of those present; Wanniski would later dub it ‘the Laffer Curve', even though Laffer later stressed, ‘The Laffer Curve, by the way, was not invented by me,' and mentioned many others, from Keynes to Khaldun, who had observed the same phenomenon (perhaps we should call it the Fourth Caliph Curve). As President J. F. Kennedy once said, ‘It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the tax rates.' It is a lesson that mankind continually seems to forget, and one that continually needs re-teaching. Hence today's post.(That was an adapted extract from Daylight Robbery, How Tax Shaped our Past and Will Change our Future). This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.theflyingfrisby.com/subscribe

This episode is filled with local interviews from Chefchauon where we learn more on the language, history and perspectives of the Moroccan and Berber people. In Amazigh society women have been considered one of the most important members in the North African countries. Women have played outstanding leadership roles including military leaders, spiritual mothers, and even more significantly as one of the Amazigh gods. Women in the parts of North Africa originally inhabited by Amazigh people (Berbers) were called “Tamghart” which is equivalent to the word “president” in English. The brother and sister concepts literally belong to the mother and not to the father. For example, Amazigh people say Ot-Mma (for Sister) or Og-Mma (for Brother) meaning she belongs to my mom or he belongs to my mom respectively. “[Dihya, the Amazigh knight who marked the history unlike any other woman, she rode horses and sought among the folk from the Aures to Tripoli, taking arms to defend her ancestral land.” - Ibn Khaldun book lessons Part VII, p. 11. References: http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/antaf_0066-4871_1994_num_30_1_1230 Kitab Futuh Messr W' Alamghreb http://shamela.ws/browse.php/book-11404/page-2#page-223 http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/dinner_party/heritage_floor/tanith.php Stay tuned for moor! IG: @muurz.z Website: www.moorsearch.org

In this impromptu episode, Adnan teaches Henry and the audience about the great 14th-15th Century scholar Ibn Khaldun, who is sometimes called  the "father of sociology".  Ibn Khaldun also revolutionized the methodology of historical analysis in his time, and provides an excellent subject for us to discuss! Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea. Follow us on social media!  Our podcast can be found on twitter @guerrilla_pod.  Your contributions make the show possible to continue and succeed!  Please encourage your comrades to join us, which will help our show grow. To follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter @huck1995, and also has a patreon to help support himself through the pandemic where he breaks down science and public health research and news at https://www.patreon.com/huck1995.  Adnan can be followed on twitter at @adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/the-majlis and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/.   Breht is the host of Revolutionary Left Radio, which can be followed on twitter @RevLeftRadio cohost of The Red Menace Podcast, which can be followed on twitter at @Red_Menace_Pod.  You can find and support these shows by visiting https://www.revolutionaryleftradio.com/. Thanks to Ryan Hakamaki, who designed and created the podcast's artwork, and Kevin MacLeod, who creates royalty-free music.

Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast and the Hank Unplugged podcast, reacts to a New York Post article reporting on the claims of the beheading of two young boys and that the Taliban have been killing off Christians with alarming speed. This should not come as a surprise. Sharia is rooted in the unalterable words of Allah and thus embodies the will of God for every aspect of society — past, present, future. Sharia is state, state is sharia, and sharia mandates proactive and perpetual war against Jews and Christians. This is the consensus of Muslim jurisprudence, which in concert with the will of Allah, mandates war as a “religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force” (Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah). Certainly, many Muslims are peaceful and tolerant; however, the history of Islam demonstrates conclusively that Islam is not a peaceful and tolerant religion. There is a collapse of clear thinking about Islam in the West, while thousands from Afghanistan are now entering the United States unvetted — and to suggest that terrorists are embedded among them is hardly unwarranted. Our porous borders expose the West to the same kind of terror that Afghanistan is presently experiencing.

Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast and the Hank Unplugged podcast, asks what will be the fate of American and Afghan allies left captive behind enemy lines in Afghanistan. Tragically, the answer is borne out by history. Recall that precisely seven years ago, Mosul, Iraq fell. Muslim fighters thereafter captured village after village. Men were executed. Women and girls taken as slaves, with the sanction for raping captives issued directly from Allah in the Qur'an. Indeed, the consensus of sharia, in concert with the will of Allah, mandates war as a “religious duty, because of the universalism of the Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force” (Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah). The Islamic wars mandated by sharia will continue on as a plague on the landscape of humanity.