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Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam by Patricia Crone

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

As a result of the conference with the Jewish delegation, however, Abu Sufyan became more conscious of the danger to the Meccan trade by the further spread of Islam. The border between their two empires keeps . Patricia Crone is professor of Islamic history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. 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. 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. €�The Hidden Origins of Islam: New Research into Its Early History” - “The Quest for the Historical Muhammad” - “Crossroads to Islam: The Origins of the Arab Religion and the Arab State” - “Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam”. The first one I turned to was Patricia Crone's book on Mecca. The two dominant powers in the region are the Romans and the Persians, with a long history of fighting over territory and trade routes. Http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/crone.html. Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. Crone showed the incense route from Yemen to Syria bypassed Mecca by over 100 miles. Imagine the Middle East in the early centuries of the Common Era. €�Having unlearnt most of what we knew about Meccan trade, do we find ourselves deprived of our capacity to explain the rise of Islam? Around this time, an unschooled loner, 40, from the tribe of Quraysh in the trading town of Mecca took to roaming the nearby hills, engaged in a solitary spiritual quest. Patricia Crone, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam (1987).