| See, for example, Bowersock, Glen Warren, Peter Robert Lamont Brown and Oleg Grabar Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World 1999, Harvard University Press p | Peter Teed 1992 , p |
137 Netanel's work was virtually unknown beyond his native Yemen until modern times, so had little influence on later Jewish thought• Seeing Islam as others saw it: a survey and evaluation of Christian, Jewish, Robert G.
14| Moreover, many of them provide evidence of embellishment and invention that were introduced to serve the purposes of political or religious apologetic | |
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| 5, "One major challenge to examining initial contacts between Byzantium and the early Muslim umma arises from the controversy surrounding the traditional Islamic account | sources are not contemporaneous with the events they purport to relate and sometimes were written many centuries later |
however, there is no relevant archaeological, epigraphic, or numismatic evidence dating from the time of Muhammad, nor are there any references to him in non-Muslim sources dating from the period before 632.
| The Bustan al-Ukul, by Nathanael ibn al-Fayyumi, edited and translated by David Levine, Columbia University Oriental Studies Vol | |
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| El-Cheikh, Nadia Maria Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs 2004, Harvard University Press p | Kafih Jerusalem, 1984 , ch |
Denis Gril, Miracles, , Brill, 2007.
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