Shinnie, The African Iron Age, Clarendon Press: 1971 , p | US: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress |
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however, there is no relevant archaeological, epigraphic, or numismatic evidence dating from the time of Muhammad, nor are there any references to him in non-Muslim sources dating from the period before 632 |
The Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest 11th-13th Centuries, BRILL, 2002 , p | |
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Chapurukha Makokha Kusimba, The Rise and Fall of Swahili States, AltaMira Press: 1999 , p | Denis Gril, Miracles, , Brill, 2007 |
See, for example, Bowersock, Glen Warren, Peter Robert Lamont Brown and Oleg Grabar Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World 1999, Harvard University Press p | |
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The Bustan al-Ukul, by Nathanael ibn al-Fayyumi, edited and translated by David Levine, Columbia University Oriental Studies Vol | These sources contain internal complexities, anachronisms, discrepancies, and contradictions |