The Rise and Fall of Empires: Situating 19th Century Colonial Imagination of the 'Orient in Ibn Khaldun's Theory of ‘Asabiyyah

Elsayed, Heather

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The Rise and Fall of Empires: Situating 19th Century Colonial Imagination of the 'Orient in Ibn Khaldun's Theory of ‘Asabiyyah

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Elsayed, Heather. The Rise and Fall of Empires: Situating 19th Century Colonial Imagination of the 'orient In Ibn Khaldun's Theory of ‘asabiyyah. ctschicago.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/6fade4f9-132d-4d9c-917f-0e1257244661?locale=de.

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E. Heather. The Rise and Fall of Empires: Situating 19th Century Colonial Imagination of the 'Orient in Ibn Khaldun's Theory of ‘Asabiyyah. https://ctschicago.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/6fade4f9-132d-4d9c-917f-0e1257244661?locale=de

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Elsayed, Heather. The Rise and Fall of Empires: Situating 19th Century Colonial Imagination of the 'orient In Ibn Khaldun's Theory of ‘asabiyyah. https://ctschicago.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/6fade4f9-132d-4d9c-917f-0e1257244661?locale=de.

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Elsayed, Heather

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This master thesis will excavate Ibn Khaldun’s theory of ‘asabiyyah, as presented in his seminal work, al-Muqaddimah, examining its relevance in understanding the plausibility of interrelated dynamics in the simultaneous rise and decline for the 19th-century British and Ottoman Empires. Ibn Khaldun posits that the rise and fall of dynasties-and history itself- are cyclical, not linear in trajectory. By the 19th-century, the Ottoman Empire had maintained a prosperous reign of 500 years captivating European travelers, diplomats, merchants, and tourists with a mix of fascination, intrigue, and as some scholars argue, ‘imperial envy’, that contributed to the production and curation of knowledge of the ‘Orient’. Within the framework of Ibn Khaldun’s theory, both ‘asabiyyah and Orientalism offer two compelling perspectives: one, as a lens for viewing the rise of the British Empire through a colonial framework, and two, as a means to understand the Ottoman Empire’s response to and, at times, assimilation of Eurocentric ideologies surrounding modernity as a form of colonial resistance in comparison with the British Empire in the 19th century.

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