| Seeing Islam as others saw it: a survey and evaluation of Christian, Jewish, Robert G | sources are not contemporaneous with the events they purport to relate and sometimes were written many centuries later |
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| Kafih Jerusalem, 1984 , ch |
| The Bustan al-Ukul, by Nathanael ibn al-Fayyumi, edited and translated by David Levine, Columbia University Oriental Studies Vol | |
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| Ideally, one would like to be able to check such accounts against contemporary evidence |
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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