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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
ISBN: 0691054800, 9780691054803
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Format: pdf

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. Historically, trade and commerce played a crucial role in the spread of Islam. 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. Crone demonstrates that Islam did not originate in Mecca. *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 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. What is the Islamic perspective on fair trade? Mecca was a centre of commerce and caravans from Asia to Africa passed through on a regular basis. 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. Mecca is located in the Hejaz region of what is today Saudi Arabia. In her book, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam, Dr. 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.