"In spite of attempts to link Islamic iconoclasm and iconomachy to a Zoroastrian influence which made itself felt from the ninth century,66 the evidence seems overwhelming that Muhammad's view of idolatry, like the concept of idolatry in its very origin, as well as the later Islamic opposition to images, developed from a judeo-Christian inheritance. Here the monotheistic tradition can be opposed to the Indo-Iranian tradition in its entirety-even though in practice religious labels like Muslim or Hindu have historically not been markers of exclusive groups or understandings of cultural symbols."
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Wink A Al-Hind, The Making of the Indo-Islamic World. Volume 1 p 313ff
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