137 Netanel's work was virtually unknown beyond his native Yemen until modern times, so had little influence on later Jewish thought• Denis Gril, Miracles, , Brill, 2007 | Seeing Islam as others saw it: a survey and evaluation of Christian, Jewish, Robert G |
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These sources contain internal complexities, anachronisms, discrepancies, and contradictions.
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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 | 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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