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Social cooperation or cohesion that lets borderland peoples defeat large, less cohesive empires.
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asabiyah
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "among the elite As well because of the Koran it was necessary for the elite to be literate It was the manner of you..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "among the elite As well because of the Koran it was necessary for the elite to be literate It was the manner of you..."
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Jiang uses Ibn Khaldun's asabiyah to explain why cohesive borderlands can conquer less cohesive empires.
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"among the elite As well because of the Koran it was necessary for the elite to be literate It was the manner of you..."
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"Whereas the empire, because it's so big, it loses a lot of cohesion, okay? And again, Ibn Khudan is a major inspiration for the..."
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