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 | |
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Hitti, History of the Arabs, 10th edition 1970 , p |
"Muhmmad," Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim world• Ideally, one would like to be able to check such accounts against contemporary evidence | 597, which notes that many of the details surrounding Muhammad's life as given in the biographies, are "problematic in certain respects, the most important of which is that they represent a tradition of living narrative that is likely to have developed orally for a considerable period before it was given even a relatively fixed written form |
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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 | Peter Teed 1992 , p |