Eurabian decline narratives inherit Spengler’s 1918 theory of civilisational exhaustion

Evidence

The Eurabian notion of cyclical civilisational decline is not new. In 1918, the German writer and philosopher Oswald Spengler captured the mood of an exhausted and war-torn continent in his portentous bestseller The Decline of the West, in which he predicted the coming collapse of a decadent European civilisation that had supposedly exhausted its creative capacity. — Matt Carr, You Are Now Entering Eurabia, 23

Categorization

• XREF: Links the modern Eurabia genre to early-20th-century cyclical-history pessimism (Spengler, and by extension Toynbee).
• SEED: Article angle: how apocalyptic decline genres recycle a century-old template, swapping class/decadence for demography and religion.