| however, there is no relevant archaeological, epigraphic, or numismatic evidence dating from the time of Muhammad, nor are there any references to him in non-Muslim sources dating from the period before 632 |
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25| 137 Netanel's work was virtually unknown beyond his native Yemen until modern times, so had little influence on later Jewish thought• Ideally, one would like to be able to check such accounts against contemporary evidence | sources are not contemporaneous with the events they purport to relate and sometimes were written many centuries later |
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| Peter Teed 1992 , p | Denis Gril, Miracles, , Brill, 2007 |
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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