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Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam by Patricia Crone

Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam Patricia Crone ebook
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Page: 301
ISBN: 0691054800, 9780691054803
Format: pdf

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. Crone P., Oxford, 1987, pp 234-45. 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. In Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam(1987) she made a detailed argument challenging the prevailing view among Western (and some Muslim) scholars that Islam arose in response to the Arabian spice trade. Understanding Islam through Hadis, RamSwarup, Voice of India. The first one I turned to was Patricia Crone's book on Mecca. GO Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam Author: Patricia Crone Type: eBook. Language: English Released: 1987. 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. Crone showed the incense route from Yemen to Syria bypassed Mecca by over 100 miles. Patricia Crone, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam (1987). Meccan Trade and Rise of Islam. Mohammed and the rise of Islam, Margoliouth D.S.. Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. Patricia Crone is professor of Islamic history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. 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.