The Bustan al-Ukul, by Nathanael ibn al-Fayyumi, edited and translated by David Levine, Columbia University Oriental Studies Vol | Ideally, one would like to be able to check such accounts against contemporary evidence |
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sources are not contemporaneous with the events they purport to relate and sometimes were written many centuries later |
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