A Comparative Study of the Views and Thoughts of Ibn Khaldun and Emil Durkheim with Emphasis on the Role and Function of Social Solidarity in the Formation and Continuity of the Political System

Social solidarity, as the most important part of a society, has a special and important place and in addition to its intrinsic functions in the management and regulation of social affairs, its existence is necessary to maintain and stabilize the socio-political system. Therefore, the present article intends to study and recognize its shaping factors in the views and ideas of Ibn Khaldun as a Muslim social philosopher and Emile Durkheim, theorist of social solidarity. Therefore, an attempt has been made to study the research issue in the framework of functionalism approach using descriptive-analytical and documentary method. With the hypothesis that "Asabiyyah" in Ibn Khaldun's thought and "interactions between individuals in the form of division of social work" in Durkheim's thought, is the main factor of social solidarity. Also, the starting point of each of these two thinkers is the degree of interaction and interaction of members in social relations, which in terms of the formation and continuity of the political and social system, the distance (rotation) of Ibn Khaldun's theory and Durkheim's theory are linear. It becomes. Ibn Khaldun's reputation as the most important social thinker in the Islamic world owes more than anything to the concept of Asabiyyah and its place in social change, which includes the five stages from birth to decline. Hence, it seems that Ibn Khaldun's social theory in terms of social transformation and its effect on the formation and continuity of the political system is of the type of rotational and conflict theory and Durkheim's social theory is also a monolithic and evolutionary theory. Although Emile Durkheim is known as a theorist of social solidarity, but thinkers such as Montesquieu, Saint Simon, Comte, Rousseau and even Ibn Khaldun in the Islamic world can be named who have focused on social harmony and cohesion.