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 :::I will be logging in again but probably not before January.
 ::::No problem, let us know when you're back in/after January. Safe travels. --[[User:Axius|Axius]] ([[User talk:Axius|talk]]) 07:55, 24 November 2012 (PST)
+:::::I am back. Actually I have been back for a while, but I delayed contacting you because I have lent out my copy of Ibn Saad, which impedes my ability to do serious work.
+:::::However, it would be foolish to delay indefinitely. I can still fix some of the other referencing - which, I promise you, is all real.
+:::::While I was away I accessed a copy of Ali Dashti's ''Twenty-Three Years''. One thing that jumped out at me was that he anticipated several of my conclusions. Although I reached my own conclusions independently, in scholarship the race is to the swift, so of course I shall be adding his work to my references. The other thing that I noticed was that a "mistake" that I had attributed to Dashti was not his mistake at all, but one made in transition by someone (anonymous) who had misinterpreted his list. Unfortunately, the wrong version is now all over the internet and falsely attributed to Dashti. It does pay to read the sources in their original form.
+:::::I've also been going over William Muir again. I don't have access to many of the early sources he cites, but he makes some excellent points that, if we can find a way to verify them, are well worth revisiting.