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The '''Doctrina Iacobi''' is a 7th-century [[Greek]] tract written in the [[Middle East]] between 634 and 640 A.D. The manuscript provides one of the earliest external accounts of the origins of Islam, presenting a significantly different Islamic historiography than found in traditional Islamic texts.

The '''Doctrina Iacobi''' is a 7th-century [[Greek]] tract written in the [[Middle East]] between 634 and 640 A.D. The manuscript provides one of the earliest external accounts of the origins of Islam, presenting a significantly different Islamic historiography than that found in traditional Islamic texts.

It records Muhammed as a Judeo-Arab preacher proclaiming the advent of a [[Jewish]] [[Messiah]] and that the Jews and Arabs were allies against the [[Byzantine]] contradicting accounts in the [[Qur'an]].

It records Muhammed as a Judeo-Arab preacher proclaiming the advent of a [[Jewish]] [[Messiah]] and that the Jews and Arabs were allies against the [[Byzantines]], contradicting accounts in the [[Qur'an]].

*What is significant here is the possibility that Jews and Arabs (Saracens) seem to be allied together during the time of the conquest of Palestine and even for a short time after ([[Patricia Crone]]-Michael Cook 1976).

*What is significant here is the possibility that Jews and Arabs (Saracens) seem to be allied together during the time of the conquest of Palestine and even for a short time after ([[Patricia Crone]] and Michael Cook, 1976).

*This document is plausibly one of the most archaic elements of the Islamic tradition, its agreement with the earliest external accounts of the origins of Islam is highly significant ([[Patricia Crone]]-Michael Cook 1977).

*This document is plausibly one of the most archaic elements of the Islamic tradition; its agreement with the earliest external accounts of the origins of Islam is highly significant ([[Patricia Crone]] and Michael Cook, 1977).

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