j'ai trouvé quelques références non-musulman neutre à l'expédition du general ethiopien abraha contre la mecque: [www.muhammadanism.org]
on parle de l'historien allemand: Nöldeke né en 1836 qui a rapporté l'information de l'historien: Procopius (500-565). On lit clairement:
For some years thereafter the situation is obscure. Then emerges an Abyssinian ruler of Yaman named Abraha (or Abraham), who held power for upwards of forty years, and whose expedition against Mecca has become famous through the reference to it in the Qur'an.[*] The story of this expedition is recounted at length by the Arab historians. It is also thought by Nöldeke 1 to be referred to by Procopius in the statement that "Abramus, when at length he had established his power most securely, promised the Emperor Justinian many times to invade the land of Persia, but only once began the journey and then straightway turned back". The object of the expedition thus falls into the network of international politics. The Romans were seeking
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Geschichte der Perser u. Araber, p. 205. Ref. to Procopius i. 20 [*] Seest thou not how thy Lord dealt with the Companions of the Elephant? Did He not make their treacherous plan go astray? And He sent against them Flights of Birds, Striking them with stones of baked clay. Then did He make them like an empty field of stalks and straw, (of which the corn) has been eaten up. al-Fil 105:1-5 (Yusuf Ali's translation)
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