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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5, "One major challenge to examining initial contacts between Byzantium and the early Muslim umma arises from the controversy surrounding the traditional Islamic account.
26Ideally, one would like to be able to check such accounts against contemporary evidence | Kafih Jerusalem, 1984 , ch |
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Seeing Islam as others saw it: a survey and evaluation of Christian, Jewish, Robert G | These sources contain internal complexities, anachronisms, discrepancies, and contradictions |
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