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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 |
Denis Gril, Miracles, , Brill, 2007.
These sources contain internal complexities, anachronisms, discrepancies, and contradictions |
Ideally, one would like to be able to check such accounts against contemporary evidence.