The traditions of the rise and fall of civilizations

Author: Abdul Latif bin Muhammad bin Abdulaziz Al-Humaidan Binding: Cover Volumes: One Paper: Shamooh Size: 14 × 21 Summary: Recognizing the laws of the rise of nations and civilizations, their development, and then their fall in the ancient and modern eras gives us the example and model to understand the reasons for strength that help stabilize countries and protect them from weakness that may lead to their disintegration and loss. Ibn Khaldun preceded his time and established the laws of the rise and fall of civilizations, which proved to still be valid for explaining the emergence and collapse of countries in the modern era. He focused on political, economic, and social factors as fundamental factors in the emergence, development, weakness, collapse, and fall of civilizations. The severe conflicts between rulers and the ruled in the current era, and the dissolution of the social contract as a means of regulating the relationship between rulers and the ruled for political, economic, and social reasons, are causes of fall and collapse, overshadowing other factors, and forming a direct threat to modern states. The development of Islamic civilization was based primarily on spiritual and human foundations, on the basis of shura, justice, equality, freedom, self-monitoring, and encouragement of work and effort. The book reached an analytical comparative applied study between civilizations, and laid out a roadmap for the new Islamic civilizational revival, with proposals to foresee the contemporary laws of the rise and fall of civilizations; to learn lessons and take benefits from that, aiming to work on strengthening the reasons for revival and using them to revive Islamic civilization anew, given its components for revival. Today, the world is in dire need of the return of Islamic civilization with its principles, teachings, commands, and prohibitions, due to its role in instilling spiritual and moral values in souls, in accordance with principles of solidarity, cooperation, and piety. Al-Obeikan 2017