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slims believe but as the secular historian cannot and should not, but rather as a document attesting to what Muhammad said ( Peters, 257).

Peters calls the Quran "a text without context . . . isolated like an immense composite rock jutting forth from a desolate sea, a stony eminence with few marks upon it to suggest how or why it appeared in this watery desert" (259). Although the writings are not concerned with bibliographic detail, Peters shows

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