Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam Patricia Crone
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Patricia Crone, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam (1987). 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. 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. 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. 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. *Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam - Patricia Crone http://books.google.com/books?id=VWL-_hRsm2IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:ISBN1593331029&sig=TK59lFkAKuBhx1LJZYYyOp2wok4. Language: English Released: 1987. 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. 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. 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. Comparative Religion, Institute of Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Leiden, The Netherlands. Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. Crone showed the incense route from Yemen to Syria bypassed Mecca by over 100 miles. 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.