Chapter I

Human civilization in general

Chapter II

Bedouin civilization, savage nations and tribes and their conditions of life, including several basic and explanatory statements

1	Both Bedouins and sedentary people are natural groups
2	The Arabs are a natural group in the world
3	Bedouins are prior to sedentary people. The desert is the basis and reservoir of civilization and cities
4	Bedouins are closer to being good than sedentary people
5	Bedouins are more disposed to courage than sedentary people
6	The reliance of sedentary people upon laws destroys their fortitude and power of resist
7	Only tribes held together by group feeling can live in the desert
8	Group feeling result's only Porn blood relationship or something corresponding to it
9	Purity of lineage is found only among the savage Arabs of the desert and other such people
10	How lineages become confused
11	Leadership over people who share in a given group feeling can not be vested in those not of the same descent
12	Only those who share in the group feeling of a group can have a "house" and nobility in the basic sense and in reality, while others have it only in a metaphorical and figurative sense
13	"House" and nobility come to clients and followers only through their masters and not through their own descent
14	Prestige lasts at best four generations in one lineage
15	Savage nations are better able to achieve superiority than others
16	The goal to which group feeling leads is royal authority
17	Obstacles on the way toward royal authority are luxury and the submergence of the tribe in a life of prosperity
18	Meekness and docility to outsiders that may come to be found in a tribe are obstacles on the way toward royal authority
19	A sign of the qualification of an individual for royal authority is his eager desire to acquire praiseworthy qualities, and vice versa
20	While a nation is savage, its royal authority extends farther
21	As long as a nation retains its group feeling, royal authority that disappears in one branch will, of necessity, pass to some other branch of the same nation
22	The vanquished always want to imitate the victor in his dis­tinctive mark(s), his dress, his occupation, and all his other conditions and customs
23	A nation that has been defeated and come under the rule of another nation will quickly perish
24	Arabs can gain control only over fat territory
25	Places that succumb to the Arabs are quickly ruined
26	Arabs can obtain royal authority only by making use of some religious coloring, such as prophecy, or sainthood, or some great religious event in general
27	The Arabs are of all nations the one most remote from royal leadership
28	Desert tribes and groups are dominated by the urban population

Chapter III

On dynasties, royal authority, the caliphate, government ranks, and all that goes with these things. The chapter contains basic and supplementary propositions

Chapter IV

Countries and cities, and all other forms of sedentary civilization. The conditions occurring there. Primary and secondary considerations in this connection

Chapter V

On the various aspects of making a living, such as profit and the crafts. The conditions that occur in this connection. A number of problems are connected with this subject

Chapter VI

The various kinds of sciences. The methods of instruction. The conditions that obtain in these connections. The chapter includes a prefatory discussion and appendices