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Title: Beware of Guillaume's Distortion of the Sira by Ibn Ishaq
Review: Guillaume resorts to dishonesties too numerous to mention; among them is the insertion of two pages from one of at-Tabari's works, in which at-Tabari recounts a spurious tale (Page 165). Guillaume never indicates his external quotations clearly, flanking them with parenthesis instead of setting them apart from the main body text, and preceeding them with a "T" which is vigorously employed but never explained. A lay muslim can fall in the trap and swallow truth with polytheistic fiction and unwittingly accept the tale as a definitive part of Ibn Ishaq's serious historical work.The sad part is that this book has been published continously in muslim countries since 1967
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