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- ↑ Hoyland, Robert G. (1997). Seeing Islam as others saw it: A survey and evaluation of Christian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian writings on early Islam. Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press. ISBN 0-87850-125-8 . Retrieved 27 May 2011.
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