User talk:Syncategoremata/Archive/Draft/Recent evidence

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I've just realised that this editor didn't add this claim on this date, but did so at this edit at 02:13, 12 August 2008 (UTC). In the diff below they are just re-organizing the article. So, different edit, but the same editor.

Welfare state
— 14:58, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

This edit added the claim that: "The Caliphate is thus considered the world's first major welfare state."

The sources cited for this were: But the first source goes no further than to say that: "[These stories] do testify to a concept of what one might call a welfare state (p. 308)"

The second source, though it describes the early Caliphate under Umar as a welfare state, makes no claim that this was the first such state.