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| Moreover, many of them provide evidence of embellishment and invention that were introduced to serve the purposes of political or religious apologetic |
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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| Denis Gril, Miracles, , Brill, 2007 |
137 Netanel's work was virtually unknown beyond his native Yemen until modern times, so had little influence on later Jewish thought• These sources contain internal complexities, anachronisms, discrepancies, and contradictions.
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