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alusur-7046	Webb, Peter 	Aziz al-Azmeh, The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Allāh and His People	2015	5	.pdf	application/pdf	2423	63	33	One reference in the reconstituted ‘source’ of the second/eighth Ibn Isḥāq’s biography of Muhammad is quoted as evidence for the ‘fact’ that pre-Islamic Arabs had a habit of rubbing their bodies on idols (226). It is directed against the formerly hyper-critical approach to early Islam adopted by various scholars, but in seeking to redress earlier cynicism, al-Azmeh swings far towards a form of positivism whereby writers of Arabic literary sources between the second/ eighth and fourth/tenth centuries are lauded as “antiquarians” (The Arabs in Islam 43, 62; The Emergence of Islam 173) with “scrupulous” intentions to accurately record pre-Islamic facts.	cache/alusur-7046.pdf	txt/alusur-7046.txt