Original sentence: Byzantine Christian historian Theophanes claimed Muhammad had epilepsy.Many modern historians reject this and consider it to have been slanderous propaganda; though some researchers consider temporal lobe epilepsy to be a possible cause of his inspirational spells
Edited sentence: He told a story which was bound to make Mohammed appear and fraud and to discredit the belief in his divine mission.Hence it was repudiated by Gibbon as "an absurd calumny of the Greeks".However most Adventists dispute these claims.The is the story which was accepted by Western historians, theologians and physicians.The medical historian, Owsei Temkin proved that the association of Muhammad with epilepsy arose from slander by the Byzantine Empire, an empire that was no only hostile to Islam but at frequent war with the Arabs, Christian historian Theophanes the Confessor.The story has all the earmarks of religious and political propaganda