Ibn Khaldun's The Muqaddimah

Rich with history, The Middle East is the birthplace of the worlds largest religion and home to the Arab peoples. The Arab peoples close ties to Islam greatly effected how they grew together and intertwined themselves so deeply that most laws and traditions practiced by Arabs are closely connected to the Islamic faith. The main primary source of information, for historians, comes from Ibn Khaldun's book, “The Muqaddimah.” Khaldun's book record the history from the first human civilizations til the fourteenth century of which Ibn Khaldun lived. He describes the known world and the people that lived before him and from these observations Khaldun extrapolates many theories on philosophy, the sciences, religion, and more. “The Muqaddimah”
In common definition its just how well he Hourani used his source material to make a point, but as with all subjects relating to history, there are always secondary meanings; not only is it how well he used Khaldun, but also what passages were focused on, what points were left out, and for what purpose? These questions allow for a bias to be ascertained from Hourani's book and allow the readers to more carefully study his writings in addition to being able to draw their own conclusions. “The Muqaddimah” is much more biased and opinionated than Hourani's because of Khaldun's faith. Khaldun's beliefs distort his writing making them more focused on informing and almost persuading his original Arabian audience that Islam was the one true faith. He really emphasizes how important it is to stay true to the beliefs of Islam because it brought their nation closer, but also because it fulfilled his own quest to spread his beliefs. The fact that copies of his books survived means that his work was well regarded and was successfully distributed or else modern historians would have had much more difficulty discovering it. Its description of the history of Arabic Civilization was valuable, but it wasn't until Hourani simplified Khaldun's ideas, and stripped away much of the bias that lied within “the Muqaddimah,” that the history could clearly be