| Ideally, one would like to be able to check such accounts against contemporary evidence | |
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| Hitti, History of the Arabs, 10th edition 1970 , p |
| 5, "One major challenge to examining initial contacts between Byzantium and the early Muslim umma arises from the controversy surrounding the traditional Islamic account | |
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137 Netanel's work was virtually unknown beyond his native Yemen until modern times, so had little influence on later Jewish thought• 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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