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id: ibn-khaldun
title: Ibn Khaldun
type: expert
version: 1.0.0
updated: 2026-11-08
---

# Ibn Khaldun

## What This Is
Preeminent Arab historian, father of sociology and economic science, and author of The Muqaddimah (1377) analyzing organizational cohesion (Asabiyyah), enterprise lifecycle decay, and platform incentive structures.

## What It Covers
- organizational culture and team cohesion
- enterprise lifecycle decay and dynastic cycles
- platform take-rates and fee incentives
- cooperative labor and surplus economics
- overhead bloat and luxury traps
- governance and institutional statecraft

## Example Queries
- How does Ibn Khaldun's concept of Asabiyyah diagnose why lean startup founding teams consistently outmaneuver resource-rich incumbent corporations?
- When an enterprise platform increases its take-rate on sellers, how does Khaldun's revenue curve predict ecosystem flight and treasury collapse?
- At what stage of Khaldun's five-stage dynastic decay cycle do modern tech monopolies begin substituting internal political posturing for external market innovation?
- How does Khaldun's analysis of the 'luxury trap' explain how escalating corporate overhead and executive perks force companies into destructive margin extraction?

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## Who Built This
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