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According to Ibn Ishaq's controversial account of the Satanic Verses ( q. v.

), these verses had previously endorsed them as intercessors for Muslims, but were abrogated.

Most Muslim scholars have regarded the story as historically implausible, while opinion is divided among western scholars such as Leone Caetani and John Burton, who argue against, and William Muir and William Montgomery Watt, who argue for its plausibility.