Revisionist school of Islamic studies

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The revisionist school of Islamic studies (also critical school of Islamic studies and critical historians of Islam) is a scientific movement in Islamic studies that questions traditional Muslim narratives of the origins of the religion of Islam. In the early 1970s some non-Muslim Islamic scholars (called "revisionists" later) began to question the traditional / conventional accounts of the rise of Islam. This origin story and the reliability of its traditional "literary sources" was subscribed to not only by the Islamic world but in large part by most non-Muslim Islamic scholars. Revisionists had doubts about these traditional sources—which included accounts of what the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers said, did, approved of, etc, which they claim were passed down orally and then written down 150 to 250 years afterwards—that (the new scholars argued) were subject to biases of and embellishments by the authors and transmitters. To these traditional sources revisionists proposed...

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