<P> The origin of the survey can be traced back to the Domesday Book ordered by king William I in 1086 . </P> <P> In the 13th century, Ma Tuan - Lin, a Chinese historian, first recognized patterns of social dynamics as an underlying component of historical development in his seminal encyclopedia, Wenxian Tongkao or "Comprehensive Examination of Literature". </P> <P> There is evidence of early Muslim sociology from the 14th century . Some consider Ibn Khaldun, a 14th - century Tunisian, Arab, Islamic scholar from North Africa, to have been the first sociologist and father of sociology; his Muqaddimah was perhaps the first work to advance social - scientific reasoning on social cohesion and social conflict . Ibn Khaldun (1332--1406), in his Muqaddimah (later translated as Prolegomena in Latin), the introduction to a seven volume analysis of universal history, was the first to advance social philosophy and social science in formulating theories of social cohesion and social conflict . He is thus considered by some to be the forerunner of sociology . </P> <P> Concerning the discipline of sociology, he conceived a dynamic theory of history that involved conceptualizations of social conflict and social change . He developed the dichotomy of sedentary life versus nomadic life as well as the concept of a "generation", and the inevitable loss of power that occurs when desert warriors conquer a city . Following a contemporary Arab scholar, Sati' al - Husri, the Muqaddimah may be read as a sociological work: six books of general sociology . Topics dealt with in this work include politics, urban life, economics, and knowledge . The work is based around Ibn Khaldun's central concept of' asabiyyah, which has been translated as "social cohesion", "group solidarity", or "tribalism". This social cohesion arises spontaneously in tribes and other small kinship groups; it can be intensified and enlarged by a religious ideology . Ibn Khaldun's analysis looks at how this cohesion carries groups to power but contains within itself the seeds--psychological, sociological, economic, political--of the group's downfall, to be replaced by a new group, dynasty or empire bound by a stronger (or at least younger and more vigorous) cohesion . </P>

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