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He died after a long battle with cancer in 1992. Nevo discovered Kufic inscriptions in the Negev desert in Israel, four hundred of which were published in Ancient Arabic Inscriptions from the Negev. Some of Nevo"s work is also published in the book Quest for the Historical Muhammad, edited by Ibn Warraq.
This approach is therefore more open than the "traditional" to acceptance of an argumentum e silentio.
Foreign if we are ready to discount an uncorroborated report of an event, we must accept that there may be nothing with which to replace it: that the event simply did not happen. That there is no evidence for it outside of the "traditional account" thus becomes positive evidence in support of the hypothesis that it did not happen.
"Methodological Approaches to Islamic Studies" in Warraq, The Quest for the Historical Muhammad p.
