Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam Patricia Crone
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Patricia Crone is professor of Islamic history at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Patricia Crone, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam (1987). GO Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam Author: Patricia Crone Type: eBook. Mecca was a centre of commerce and caravans from Asia to Africa passed through on a regular basis. Crone showed the incense route from Yemen to Syria bypassed Mecca by over 100 miles. What is the Islamic perspective on fair trade? €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 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. 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. Language: English Released: 1987. 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. 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.