| El-Cheikh, Nadia Maria Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs 2004, Harvard University Press p | 137 Netanel's work was virtually unknown beyond his native Yemen until modern times, so had little influence on later Jewish thought• |
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Moreover, many of them provide evidence of embellishment and invention that were introduced to serve the purposes of political or religious apologetic.
| sources are not contemporaneous with the events they purport to relate and sometimes were written many centuries later | |
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| Peter Teed 1992 , p | 5, "One major challenge to examining initial contacts between Byzantium and the early Muslim umma arises from the controversy surrounding the traditional Islamic account |