Ideally, one would like to be able to check such accounts against contemporary evidence | "Muhmmad," Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim world• |
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The Bustan al-Ukul, by Nathanael ibn al-Fayyumi, edited and translated by David Levine, Columbia University Oriental Studies Vol |
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 | 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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sources are not contemporaneous with the events they purport to relate and sometimes were written many centuries later |
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