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To: Mitchell; JasonC; muawiyah
Is there contemporaneous documentation on individuals
other than Mohammed from the same general time and place?

Mu'awiyah I (602-680) is the first Caliph whose existence is documented by non-Arabic sources.

119 posted on 11/18/2002 4:11:57 AM PST by Nogbad
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To: Nogbad
At the time there were not a lot of "other sources". After all, this was the Dark Ages. Times were tough. Nobody was taking notes! Western Europe had suffered serious depopulation and nobody had any idea if there were even any people left in Eastern Europe.
120 posted on 11/18/2002 5:53:26 AM PST by muawiyah
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