Cohesion and Identity
The Maghreb from Ibn Khaldun to Emile Durkheim
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6265247 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ernest Gellner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 203-218 |
| Publication date | 1975-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Government and Opposition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0017-257X • E-ISSN: 1477-7053 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1477-7053.1975.tb00637.x |
| OpenAlex | W2084279525 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
IBN KHALDUN, LIKE EMILE DURKHEIM, IS PRIMARILY A THEORIST OF social cohesion. His central problem is - what is it that keeps men together in society? What is it that leads them to idendy with a sacid group, to accept and observe its norms, to subordinate their own individual interests to it, in some measure to accept the authority of its leaders, to think its thoughts and to internalize its aims? This is a question which sociologists, moralists and political osophers share. One of the interesting traits of Ibn Khaldun owever is the extent to which he is a sociologist rather than a moralist: modern sociologists may preach Wertfreiheit, he ractised it. Even when, as a kind of Maghrebin Machiavelli, he offers advice to princes, it is basically technical advice on points of detail, or on the wisdom of knowing things for what they are: but when it comes to the basic features of the social system, he indulges in no preaching. No advice is offered to the social cosmos as to how it should comport itself. Things are as they are. The thinker's job is to understand them, not to change them. Marx's contrary opinion would have astonished Ibn Khaldun. In this sense, Ibn Khaldun is more positivistic than Durkheim, whose thought is far more often at the service of values and of the concern with social renovation
Aesthetics · Cohesion (chemistry · Epistemology · Identity (music · Political science · Politics · Positivism · Sociology · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy
The View from Tindouf
Beyond external theories
Does Durkheim Make a Contribution to Understanding One Alleged Cause of Persecution
Ibn Khaldun’s Labor Theory of Value and the Question of Race
We’re in the stadium; our husbands in the mall with the children’
Khaldunian studies today
Realism and its limitations for Ibn Khaldūn
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2003 - 2026 (24) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |