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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 | |
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These sources contain internal complexities, anachronisms, discrepancies, and contradictions | Peter Teed 1992 , p |
sources are not contemporaneous with the events they purport to relate and sometimes were written many centuries later | 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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Lapidus 2002 , pp 0 | Seeing Islam as others saw it: a survey and evaluation of Christian, Jewish, Robert G |