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Early Islam Donna M. Mertens At a time when BuffaloThis successor volume to The Hidden Origins of Islam (edited by Karl Heinz Ohlig and Gerd R. Puin) continues the pioneering research begun in the first volume into the earliest development of Islam. Using coins, commemorative building inscriptions, and a rigorous linguistic analysis of the Koran along with Persian and Christian literature from the seventh and eighth centuries when Islam was in its formative stages five expert contributors attempt a