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On the use of non-Muslim sources in early Islamic history
A paper arguing that contemporary Syriac, Greek and Armenian accounts belong in the evidence base, and answering the standard objections to using them.
Contemporary non-Muslim witnesses are neither neutral nor useless. This paper sets out how historians weigh hostile testimony and why excluding it weakens rather than protects the traditional account.
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