Front Matter for: Applying Ibn Khaldun: The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology

Alatas, Syed Farid

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“…These include Benhabib 2002;Kymlicka 1995;Malik 2015;Okin 1999;Parekh 2002;and Phillips 2009. 21 See, for example, Alatas 2014;Baali 1988;Dhaouadi 2011;Faridah 2006, 1-23;Megherbi 1971;Soyer 2010;and Soyer and Gilbert 2012. 22 See, among many others, Bouthoul 1930;Dale 2015;Hussain 1918;and Mahdi 1957.…”

Section: The Spiraliform Cycle Of Historymentioning

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The Senility of Group Solidarity and Contemporary Multiculturalism: A Word of Warning from a Medieval Arabic Thinker

Verza

2018

Ratio Juris

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This paper discusses the thought of the medieval Maghrebin thinker Ibn Khaldun through the prism of the philosophy and sociology of law and politics. I will first try to illustrate how, even if Ibn Khaldun wrote in the fourteenth century, he anticipated many core concepts that are characteristic of modern Western sociological and philosophical thought. The argument is thus made that his thought can, and indeed must, be rescued from the wide neglect that, outside the specialized field of Khaldunian studies, it has so far suffered in our treatment and teaching of the history of politico‐legal sociological thought. I will then claim that the scheme he devised to explain the rise and fall of civilizations can also, with due care, be used to frame and understand the political and cultural landscape in which the West and the Islamic world are presently engaged in a difficult dialogue. The discussion is in this sense offered in the hope of making a contribution to the current politico‐legal philosophical and sociological debate on multiculturalism, and on the limits of its scope.

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Section: The Spiraliform Cycle Of Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Senility of Group Solidarity and Contemporary Multiculturalism: A Word of Warning from a Medieval Arabic Thinker

Verza

2018

Ratio Juris

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“…Decolonization will require rethinking curricula, methodology, theory, and the way the workforce of social science is constituted. We already have some fine resources for this work (e.g., S. F. Alatas ; Bhambra ; Cooper and Morrell ; L. Smith ), but a demanding job still lies ahead.…”

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In Praise of Sociology

Connell

2017

Canadian Review of Sociology

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This reflection on the relevance of sociology starts with the different forms of social knowledge, and some autobiographical reflection on my engagement with the discipline. A research-based social science is made urgent by the prevalence of distortion and pseudoscience in the public realm. However, the research-based knowledge formation is embedded in a global economy of knowledge that centers on a privileged group of institutions and produces major imbalances on a world scale. Sociological data collection has important uses in policy and public discussion. But data need to be embedded in a larger project of understanding the world; this is what gives excitement to the work. Sociology has a potential future of marginality or triviality in the neoliberal economy and its university system. There are better trajectories into the future-but they have to be fought for. Cette réflexion sur l'utilité de la sociologie commence avec les différentes formes de savoir social, ainsi que quelques réflexions biographiques sur mon engagement avec la discipline. Le besoin d'une science sociale orientée vers la recherche est devenue nécessaire suite à la prédominance de la distorsion et de la pseudoscience dans la sphère publique. Par contre, ce savoir centré sur la recherche est lié à une économie globale de la connaissance qui est proche d'un groupe privilégié d'institutions et produit des déséquilibres majeurs au niveau mondial. La collecte de données sociologiques a une grande utilité en politique et dans les discussions publiques. Mais ces données doivent être liées à un projet plus large de compréhension du monde ; c'est ce qui rend ce travail excitant. La sociologie risque la marginalisation ou la trivialité dans une économie néo-libérale et son système universitaire. Il existe de meilleures trajectoires pour l'avenir - mais elles doivent être défendues.

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“…Born and raised in the post‐colonial South East Asian context, Alatas' work in general covers such topics as Eurocentrism and East–West distinctions, democracy and authoritarianism in South East Asian post‐colonial states, the reception of, and the responses to, the Western social sciences in Asia, religion and tradition in Muslim Asian countries, as well as Ibn Khaldun's thought (e.g. Alatas, , , , , , , , , ; Alatas, Ghee, & Kuroda, ; Alatas & Sinha, ; Alatas, van Bremen, & Ben‐Ari, ). Provincializing the European‐born social theory and decolonization of knowledge produced in the Western metropolises of academia on these Asian and Muslim topics appear to be a prevailing theme in his work.…”

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“…Alatas' other useful book on Applying Ibn Khaldun: The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology (Routledge, , 224 pp.) entails, in addition to the application of Ibn Khaldun's model to several cases, a review of his main concepts, and a discussion on his significance for the modern social theory.…”

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Khaldunian studies today: The contributions of Syed Farid Alatas

Ardıç

2017

J Historical Sociology

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The growing interest in the 14 th -century Muslim scholar IbnKhaldun's ideas and his essentially historical-sociological perspective implies a promise of a critical appraisal of the Eurocentric nature of the classical and contemporary social theory. An important role is played in this endeavor by Syed Farid Alatas whose work has been important not only in terms of further introducing Ibn Khaldun's theory to the Western audience but also making it more relevant to the contemporary theoretical debates and historical sociology.This article reviews Alatas' work on Ibn Khaldun with a view to demonstrate that his contributions to the Khaldunian studies today take at least five different forms: a critical examination of Ibn Khaldun's theory in general, and reconstruction of it as a theory of the state, and of religious revival in particular; demonstrating its significance for the modern social sciences; its application to a number of premodern and modern empirical cases; and a theoretical integration of his model with some modern Western theories, which is a rare occurrence in both Khaldunian studies and sociology in general. | INTRODUCTIONThe scholarly literature on the 14 th -century Arab-Muslim thinker 'Abd al-Rahman Ibn Khaldun (732-808 AH/1332-1406 CE) entails different attitudes toward his work, presenting him from different angles using a diverse set of adjectives. For some he is a typical Aristotelian philosopher with no original contribution to philosophy or the study of history (e.g. Mahdi, 1957) or a typical historian of his own time offering no insights for today (Al-Azmeh, 1982;Gibb, 1933) -while others see him as an unusually "modern" or "secular" thinker that (surprisingly) emerged from the premodern Islamic world, finding his Muqaddima (Prolegomenon) fascinating (e.g. Nicholson, 1966;Ortega y Gasset, 1934). Still others claim he is an original philosopher and even the pioneer of the modern social science, and sociology in particular (e.g. Baali, 1988;Ben Salem, 1996;Bouthoul, 1930;Cheddadi, 2006;Conyers, 1972;Dhaouadi, 1990;Şentürk, 2016;Simon, 1959;Wafi, 1962 Spengler, 1963-64, Talbi, 1967, Baali, 1992, Cheddadi, 2006, Tomar, 2006 economy, methodology, etc. (e.g. 'Izzat, 1952;Baali & Price, 1982;Gellner, 1975;Goodman, 1972;Laroui, 1987). Still others focus on Ibn Khaldun's methodological perspective, often trying to re-articulate it in a manner that is compatible with modern debates or in a comparative fashion with a Western figure (e.g. Ahmad, 2003;Al-Marzouki, 2006;Ardıç, 2008;Dale, 2006;Hourani, 1982;Mahdi, 1957;Meuleman, 1991;Oumlil, 1982). Analyses and critical evaluations of Ibn Khaldun's concepts and view of society and the state also constitute a significant portion of the existing literature on the Khaldunian thought (e.g. Cheddadi, 1980;Hannoum, 2003;Hussein, 1917;Lacoste, 1984;Rabiʿ, 1967;Rosenthal, 1979;Stowasser, 1983;Von Sivers, 1980;Walzer, 1963). Very few, however, attempt at an application of his theoretical ideas and/or concepts to historical or contemporary empirical cases...

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Front Matter for: Applying Ibn Khaldun: The Recovery of a Lost Tradition in Sociology

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The Senility of Group Solidarity and Contemporary Multiculturalism: A Word of Warning from a Medieval Arabic Thinker

The Senility of Group Solidarity and Contemporary Multiculturalism: A Word of Warning from a Medieval Arabic Thinker

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Khaldunian studies today: The contributions of Syed Farid Alatas

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