@article{2018,title={IBN KHALDUN AND HIS ASABIHHAY THOUGHT REGARDING MODERN POLITICAL THEORY},abstractNode={Ibn Khaldun, as being a realist and observer thinker and philosopher, has a really significant place in the world history of thinking and political thought in line with the following robust reasons; he put forward a different method, not resembling to those of before-thinkers, in order to understand and solve out societal events; claimed that society and state have a natural root and evolving naturally in a historical context and present a new state theory by describing this historical process and context. Fast and detailed constructive process forced by the global change and transformation that are gone through penetrates not only to thepolitical, cultural and economical affairs but also basic philosophical, particularly epistemological perceptions, and this situation necessitates a total and interdisciplinary approaches fort he analysis of the questioned process. In this respect, Ibn Khaldun, a 14th century Islamic philosopher, who explains the social change/transformation using conceptual theory “asabiyyah” and evaluates transformation as an inner variable connected to the whole other factors in the system, put forward a political philosophy that are considered as a source of analyzes which could overcome the impasse experienced by the current modern political philosophy. The main purpose of this study is to examine the “asabiyyah” concept theorized by Ibn Khaldun in his famous work The Muqaddimah for putting forth the change and transformations of tribes, communities and societies, and to analyze if this concept could be posed forth as a new political theory in line with explaining of the changes for modern societies.},author={Gökhan AK-- Mete Kaan KAYNAR},year={2018},journal={The Journal of Academic Social Science}}