The Ibn Khaldun
Framework
Asabiyyah & the Cycle of Dynasties
Ibn Khaldun represents one of the most distinctive thinking patterns in their field. Ibn Khaldun's approach — captured in this framework as mental models, decision heuristics, and the signature questions they would ask. The asabiyyah & the cycle of dynasties framework distils Ibn Khaldun's documented approach into a .md skill file you can load into Claude, ChatGPT, or any LLM in seconds. Where most AI personas generate generic output, this framework is grounded in real documented work: interviews, writing, published frameworks, and the specific decisions Ibn Khaldun made when it mattered. Use it for decision-making, writing, strategy, or any situation where you want your AI to think with Ibn Khaldun's distinctive patterns rather than a default model voice.
A glimpse of Ibn Khaldun's thinking.
Ibn Khaldun held that history is not a sequence of accidents but a science governed by the rise and fall of group solidarity, which he called *asabiyyah*, the fierce mutual loyalty that binds a people in shared hardship and propels them to power. Once a group seizes power, the very comfort that power delivers begins dissolving the solidarity that won it, producing a predictable dynastic cycle that repeats across civilizations regardless of religion, geography, or era. The task of the serious analyst is not to moralize about decline but to identify where in that cycle a given group currently stands and what forces are accelerating or retarding the movement.
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Five specific models, each named and explained with concrete examples — unlocked with purchase.
What hardship originally forged this group's solidarity, and how many of the current members actually experienced it?
4 more questions in Ibn Khaldun's voice are unlocked with purchase.
Full list of anti-patterns unlocked with purchase.
The full framework adds: detailed explanations of all five mental models with real-world examples, the decision heuristics Ibn Khaldun actually used, remaining signature questions, the complete list of anti-patterns, a copy-paste activation prompt, and a worked example.
Unlocked the moment you purchase. ~2,000 words total. Delivered as a Claude Skill and plain .md within 60 seconds of checkout.
- ✦Core philosophy — 2–3 sentences grounded in Ibn Khaldun's documented worldview
- ✦Five signature mental models — each named, with concrete examples from their work
- ✦Decision heuristics — the concrete rules they actually used
- ✦Signature questions — five questions that sound like Ibn Khaldun, not a generic MBA
- ✦What they would NOT do — the anti-patterns this framework rejects
- ✦Copy-paste activation prompt — drop straight into Claude or ChatGPT
- ✦Worked example — the framework applied to a realistic scenario
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~/.claude/skills/ - →ibn-khaldun-framework.md — plain markdown. Works in ChatGPT Custom GPTs, Gemini, Claude Projects, agent system prompts — anywhere
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Inspired by the documented thinking of Ibn Khaldun. A mental-model toolkit, not a literal representation. Delivered as a .md file compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and any LLM.