Noreen's Reviews > Asabiyyah: What Ibn Khaldun, the Islamic father of social science, can teach us about the world today

Ed West does a fine job explaining a concept that doesn't exist in English. "Asabiyyah", is simply and incorrectly translated as family, clan or tribal loyalty. A "drink" encompasses thousands of different liquids, and social situations just as "loyalty".

Answers the question of why democracy works in some situations and not others.

Connections:
1. "Ibn Khaldun": Michael Crichton's " Eaters of the Dead."
2. Honor killing; Practice of torching Indian brides when the groom's family (especially the mother-in-law) did not receive sufficient dowry. Outsider murders when daughters were raped or seduced without male family consent. "Tough Trip through Paradise"-Andrew Garcia.
3. Kurds: Saladin a honorable enemy in reading Crusader history.

Sorry this book is not in-print.