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 | |
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"Muhmmad," Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim world• |
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.
Moreover, many of them provide evidence of embellishment and invention that were introduced to serve the purposes of political or religious apologetic | Hitti, History of the Arabs, 10th edition 1970 , p |
Ideally, one would like to be able to check such accounts against contemporary evidence.
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