Warfare and group solidarity: From Ibn Khaldun to Ernest Gellner and beyond

Ibn Khaldun and Ernest Gellner have both developed comprehensive yet very different theories of social cohesion. Whereas traces the development intense group solidarity to ascetic lifestyles nomadic warriors, for cohesion is a product material conditions. In contrast Khaldun?s theory, where all ties are generated through similar processes, in Gellner?s model patterns collective change time, that is, societies produce forms While argues asbiyyah backbone unity orders, insists modern underpinned by type than their premodern counterparts. this paper I offer critique develop an alternative explanation, which situates dynamics organisational ideological legacies warfare.