DEVS 292 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fiqh, Israelites, Once Group
10 Oct 2016
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About him: born in 1332-1406, born in tunisia, africa, grew up in spain, tolerant to various cultures and religious, influential. Wrote this 1332-1406: numerous muslims dynasties within the egyptian region. Main topics: bedouins vs sedentary individuals, laws. Sendentary people: khaldun define sedentary people as: people whom concern themselves with conveniences and luxuries they entrust their ruler to protect and provide for them cannot do anything for themselves. Man is a child of the customs and the things he become used to. Bedouins is the natural state of man. Sedentary life constitutes the last stage of civilization and the point to where it begins to decay. Khaldun understands laws to diminish fortitude (adversity + morals) Bedouins have the greatest fortitude, as they are not subject to laws. Causes loss of fortitude as power and ability to choose is lost. Sedentary individual experience vast lost of fortitude, as they are submissive to laws.
