Both Peters and Dashti make some drastic theoretical presuppositions and assumptions in their writings. First of all, and most importantly, they assume most of the stories that supposedly took place during Muhammad's life as true. This seems very important to me. The stories of events that involved Muhammad are mostly gathered through word of mouth or a "chain of transmission" and through Muhammad's own writings. Though I believe most of the stories about the life …showed first 75 words of 567 total…

…showed last 75 words of 567 total…that the Muslim world has presented. The only part that he may falter on is using stories as evidence without realizing these assumptions that he made. Yes, assumptions that we make can sometime bring us to a very wrong answer, but these assumptions still need to be made. They need to be made because we must always try to find the truth about things and having differing opinions is a great aid in this struggle.