Another short reply to Sohel; I had a very quick look at your blogs. It is most interesting and shall definitely read it later this evening. You might like to look at a book called 'Hagarism' by Patricia Crone. Crone was a new breed of scholar before Islamophobia swept the west. Her book on Caliphal authority in the first centuries of Islam as well as the old spice trade route was groundbreaking scholarship on Arabia when it first came out.
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