Looks a bit like the attitude of Islamitic scholarship (if there is any). Tom Holland had a hard time writing about the actual history of the Islam. Everything that did not fit was eradicated, censored or adapted. Everything: events and non-events became attributed to Mohammed. Fundamentalists like Al-Qaida and IS do not care about the history and culture before the prophet Mohammed.
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Looks a bit like the attitude of Islamitic scholarship (if there is any). Tom Holland had a hard time writing about the actual history of the Islam. Everything that did not fit was eradicated, censored or adapted. Everything: events and non-events became attributed to Mohammed. Fundamentalists like Al-Qaida and IS do not care about the history and culture before the prophet Mohammed.