"Nothing from the contents of Ibn Ishaq is confirmed by inscriptions or other archeological material. Testimonies from…"

"“for every event which took place in the life of Muhammad, Ibn Ishaq meticulously recorded in his Sira in which month…"

"As Crone puts it, “It is obvious that if the Meccans had been middlemen in a long-distance trade of the kind describe…"

"“The political and ecclesiastical importance of Arabia in the sixth century was such that considerable attention was …"

"It is my belief that the early descriptions of Mecca and its mountains do not fit the Mecca of today."

"It is not just on the level of simple isolated words but also at the level of syntax that the Arab commentators have …"

"The text of the Koran as transmitted by Muslim Orthodoxy contains, hidden behind it as a ground layer and considerabl…"

"Lüling sees traces of the Christian controversies over the nature of Christ in the Qur’an’s denunciations of those wh…"

"The simplest means by which honest men sought to combat the rapid increase of faked hadiths is at the same time a mos…"