Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam by Patricia Crone

Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam Patricia Crone ebook
ISBN: 0691054800, 9780691054803
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In her book, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam, Dr. Comparative Religion, Institute of Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Leiden, The Netherlands. She begins the book by pointing out that it's a commonplace that Mecca was the center of a trading empire and that this empire had a role in the rise of Islam. Mecca is located in the Hejaz region of what is today Saudi Arabia. The Muslim victory also signaled other tribes that a new power had arisen in Arabia and strengthened Muhammad's authority as leader of the often fractious community in Medina. Groom, N., Frankincense and Myrrh, a Study of the Arabian Incense Trade, London, 1981 Humphreys, R.S., Islamic History, a framework for Enquiry, Princeton, 1991. Crone demonstrates that Islam did not originate in Mecca. Rather than in Central Arabia, where the development of trade, but also the diffusion of Judaism and Christianity, was still was very limited in the first third of the 7th century (Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam, Princeton U.P. After the rise of Islam, however, the Arabic of northwest Arabia, the region of the Hijaz, became the dominant language of the Arabs, and it, along with its cognate dialects, formed the Arabic known today. GO Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam Author: Patricia Crone Type: eBook. Local Arab tribes In the spring of 624, Muhammad received word from his intelligence sources that a trade caravan, commanded by Abu Sufyan and guarded by thirty to forty men, was travelling from Syria back to Mecca. Patricia Crone is professor of Islamic history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Every first-year student knows that Mecca at the time of the Prophet was the centre of a far-flung trading empire, which plays a role of some importance in all orthodox accounts of the rise of Islam. It would be very interesting o compare what was happening in Mecca before rise of Islam. Having unlearnt most of what we knew about Meccan trade, do we find ourselves deprived of our capacity to explain the rise of Islam? Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. Patricia Crone in her 1987 book "Meccan Trade and the Rise of islam" establishes that historical records show that well into the time of the Prophet, Mecca was not a center of trade at all. Language: English Released: 1987. *Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam - Patricia Crone http://books.google.com/books?id=VWL-_hRsm2IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:ISBN1593331029&sig=TK59lFkAKuBhx1LJZYYyOp2wok4. The first one I turned to was Patricia Crone's book on Mecca. The problems in early Arabic historiography are addressed more explicitly by Patricia Crone in two later monographs: (1) Slaves on Horses; (2) Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam.