The main primary sources on the history of the Songhai Empire were written in this language.
A historian who used this language is primarily known as "the son of a chatterbox," and Philip Hitti founded the modern American study of histories in this language. A person who wrote in this language wrote an eyewitness account of a ship burial by the Volga Vikings. A seminal work of comparative religion, History of the Hind, is in this language, as is a book that put forth eight principles such as "history is a science" to counter (*) seven factors that make "all records, by their very nature, liable to error;" that text was meant to be the first chapter of a planned Book of Lessons. The main primary sources on the history of the Songhai Empire were written in this language. For 10 points, name this language used in a book that discussed the communalistic sentiment of 'asabiyya, the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun.
A historian who used this language is primarily known as "the son of a chatterbox," and Philip Hitti founded the modern American study of histories in this language.
Arabic [or al-'Arabiyya]