Ibn Khaldun...his social philosophy

Studying the writings of a historian does not necessarily require us to summarize his biography in detail, nor to contemplate for a long time its details. If the historian wrote an informative or annual history, and if he limited himself to narrating events as told by regional or local narratives, or if he studied and collected documents of an era to make of them a complete story, then the vicissitudes of his life would have nothing but anecdotal importance. This is the case with Ibn Khaldun if we only look at the purely historical part of his writings, which alone is considered a great source of pride. Had it not been for what Ibn Khaldun wrote in history, we would not know today what the history of North Africa was like from the Islamic conquest until the fourteenth century. Anyone who wanted to create a continuity between the end of the Roman Empire, that is, between the Byzantine era and modern times, would inevitably rely - were it not for Ibn Khaldun - on assumptions. Had it not been for Ibn Khaldun, we would not have had the necessary elements to form a fairly correct idea of ??what North Africa was like during the only period in which it was isolated, as it no longer had more than theoretical connections with other peoples.