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Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam Patricia Crone
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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. 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. The first one I turned to was Patricia Crone's book on Mecca. €�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”. 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. 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? Crone demonstrates that Islam did not originate in Mecca. The Myth of Mecca (as the early center of Islam) - "Let's face it . A Response to Patricia Crone's Book: Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. 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. 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. Patricia Crone is professor of Islamic history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. 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. Download The English Version · Download The Arabic Version. Islam began in the year 666 AD." In her book, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam, Dr.