| Ideally, one would like to be able to check such accounts against contemporary evidence | The Bustan al-Ukul, by Nathanael ibn al-Fayyumi, edited and translated by David Levine, Columbia University Oriental Studies Vol |
Seeing Islam as others saw it: a survey and evaluation of Christian, Jewish, Robert G.
19| Peter Teed 1992 , p | 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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| sources are not contemporaneous with the events they purport to relate and sometimes were written many centuries later |
"Muhmmad," Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim world• 137 Netanel's work was virtually unknown beyond his native Yemen until modern times, so had little influence on later Jewish thought• Denis Gril, Miracles, , Brill, 2007.
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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.