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Posted at Mar 10/2011 08:03PM:
#ian: Zahid where are you???

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Posted at Mar 10/2011 10:33PM:
#Aniqa: What Ibn Khaldun used to describe "civilization"

Madeline: From https://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a901758057: "'umran is at the very centre of Ibn Khaldun's world view. Ibn Khaldun applied the term to describe movement from rural ('umran badawi) to urban ('umran hadhari). He also applied the concept to the world that he observed. It becomes clear that Ibn Khaldun saw 'umran not as something static, a product, but rather as a dynamic process. That is precisely the value of Ibn Khaldun's sense of 'umran to our understanding of the 'social' today, one in which finality does not necessarily reside in the city. "