Ibn Khaldun's Cycles of History
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One of the concepts Ibn Khaldun emphasized that Timur and his successors could’ve learnt a great deal from was the ‘cycles of history’. He argued that Empire's had three different generations. The first generation fueled by the fervor of the Asabiyya would go on to achieve great things: military expansion, establishment of a state and a general sense of stability in the way of authority and law. The second generation would go away from the things that got the first generation into the esteem position that they had and this was largely due to the effects that city life had on the people's mentality - taking them away from the group orientated Asabiyya towards a more individualistic outlook on life. And the third generation would bring about the decline of the state. The construction of the Blue Mosque in Istanbul at the start of the 17th century can in part be explained as a manifestation of what Ibn Khaldun was speaking about in terms of a state becoming softer and going away from the
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