> I did ask a historian friend who specializes in the Middle East about > this recently. He told me that the Islamic world really didn't take > much notice of Europe until after the period in question so it's not > really possible to match up the Islamic calendar to events in Europe > during or before the Dark Ages. If the hypothesis proved to be true, > Islamic history probably wouldn't be affected very much at all.
I'm bearing in mind Sarasvati's imprecation to keep this "innocent, non-denominational, and non-violent", but: Arabs, Franks, and the Battle of Tours, 732: Three Accounts http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/732tours.html would be the very least of the problems affecting this theory which, how can I put this, doesn't match up to the standards of the rest of the material on Markus' pages. Al.
