[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the original — Tom Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the original — Tom Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the original — Tom Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the original — Tom Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the original — Tom Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
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[T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the original circumstances of its composition.

— Tom Holland, In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire
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