Live from the Outer Banks: : "The consensus among scholars now probably would be that we know less about the historical Mohammed...
...than we do about the historical Jesus.... The evidence for what the historical Mohammed said and did is... patchy and tendentious, [and so] it becomes increasingly difficult to insist that the inheritance of writings about him is not thoroughly contingent....Recogni[ze] that the stories told about Mohammed are largely fictions bred of a particular context and period..."
