Noori disputes the claim that the first Muslims came to India along with Alauddin Khalji between 1296–1316 AD and points out that according to renowned historian, Henry Miers Elliot, ("The History of India as told by its own Historians", Part I) the first ship bearing Muslim travellers was seen on the Indian coast as early as 630 AD. H.G.(Hugh George) Rawlinson, in his book: "Ancient and Medieval History of India", claims the first Arab Muslims settled on the Indian coast in the last part of the 7th century AD. Bartholomew also has similar things to say about the early Muslim settlers in India. J. Sturrock in his "Madras Districts Manuals: South Kanara", says that Parsi and Arab businessmen settled in different places of the Malabar coast during the 7th century. Ahmed Noori has quoted these and other sources to validate his argument that the Arab and other Settlers came to India much before the Arab, Turk and Afghan conquerors came to North India.