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Thomas the Presbyter.
Most serious academics know exactly who he is. And never discuss him.
Why?
He is one of the few 7th century eyewitnesses from the 602 to 640 period whose accounts survives.
So what is the problem?
He tells us the Arab Conquests came out of the Levant led by Muhammad himself, and it was Muhammad himself who liberated Syria, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, and Palestine from the 2 thoroughly discredited empires of Rome and Sassania whose rulers had torn both empires apart in religious schisms with religious police and forced conversions on top of the Apocalyptic War of 602 to 628 that the Quran references.
This contradicts the entire Hadith Corpus which itself is contradictory and whose authors outright state they have no clue what is true and they are a political project.
Thus Muslim Scholars upholding the Hadiths also don't touch Thomas' works, even though the Quran warns 22 times not to accept any Hadiths but the Quran and doesn't support the later Hadith Narratives.
Thanks to Thomas' account, we know Muhammad led the Arab Liberation of the Levant from 2 tyrannical regimes that had long since discredited themselves and was alive as late as 640 CE.
For too long "Mainstream" Scholars have viewed the 7th century through 8th and 9th century sources that all contradict each other and the Quran, and not through the actual 7th century sources we actually have, the rock inscriptions, the Papyri Records, the Codex Parisino‑Petropolitanus which is the earliest Quran we actually have before vowels and diatrical marks were added, the earliest Qiblahs of the first Masjids all pointing at Petra, in Jordan, the coinage, and what the Quran actually says vs what the Hadiths claim.
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