ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I engage with the concept of Asabiyyah introduced by Ibn Khaldun in his monumental work Al Moqaddima written in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth century. Al Moqadimma is thought of as a major work in the study of human societies and what sustains them. Central to that work is the concept of Asabiyyah, or what binds people together. In the chapter I discuss how Asabiyyah could serve as alternative to fundamentalist militant Islam as seen in ISIS and other groups on the one hand, and on the other hand it could also serve as an alternative for the people in the region and beyond against racism, xenopobia, neolibarism, colonialism, and viscious Western imperialism. A Solidarity of the Global South that opposes all these forms of repression, exclusion, exploitations, violence, inequality, and wars is the best response to sustain our human societies.
