Ibn Khaldun framed all governance theory as commentary on the ring of eight words

Evidence

Book one of Ibn Khaldun’s work, known as The Muqaddima, presented his theory of human society, a theory addressed to the political crisis of his own age. The entire theory of the governing of human communities, he wrote, if studied with due attention, could be understood as a commentary upon the ring of eight words. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 426