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These sources contain internal complexities, anachronisms, discrepancies, and contradictions | Lapidus 2002 , pp 0 |
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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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Denis Gril, Miracles, , Brill, 2007.