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Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam Patricia Crone
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A Response to Patricia Crone's Book: Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. [4] Patricia Crone, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987), 244; also available at: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/crone.html (accessed December 16, 2005). 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. The first one I turned to was Patricia Crone's book on Mecca. Imagine the Middle East in the early centuries of the Common Era. What is the Islamic perspective on fair trade? The Myth of Mecca (as the early center of Islam) - "Let's face it . 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. Islam began in the year 666 AD." In her book, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam, Dr. Mecca was a centre of commerce and caravans from Asia to Africa passed through on a regular basis. 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. 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 two dominant powers in the region are the Romans and the Persians, with a long history of fighting over territory and trade routes. Crone demonstrates that Islam did not originate in Mecca. Historically, trade and commerce played a crucial role in the spread of Islam. The border between their two empires keeps . Download The English Version · Download The Arabic Version. 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.