By Robert Hoyland
Because this paintings perspectives Islamic background by using non-Muslim texts and assesses the latter within the mild of Muslim writings, will probably be crucial analyzing for historians of Islam, Christianity, Judaism, or Zoroastrianism--indeed, for all people with an curiosity in cultures of the jap Mediterranean in its conventional section from overdue Antiquity to medieval times.
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