Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam by Patricia Crone

Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam Patricia Crone ebook
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ISBN: 0691054800, 9780691054803

Crone showed the incense route from Yemen to Syria bypassed Mecca by over 100 miles. The border between their two empires keeps . 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. The two dominant powers in the region are the Romans and the Persians, with a long history of fighting over territory and trade routes. Meccan Trade and 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. €Having unlearnt most of what we knew about Meccan trade, do we find ourselves deprived of our capacity to explain 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). Patricia Crone, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam (1987). Imagine the Middle East in the early centuries of the Common Era. Http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/crone.html.