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The events of the life of the Holy Prophet were first put into writing almost 100 years after his death. Hence the writers had no written sources to fall back upon except memorized traditions.
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© 2000 Mansoor Moaddel and Kamran Talattof
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Nu‘mani, ‘.S. (2000). Methodology of Historical Writing. In: Moaddel, M., Talattof, K. (eds) Modernist and Fundamentalist Debates in Islam. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-09848-1_7
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