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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
Page: 301

In her book, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam, Dr. [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). Understanding Islam through Hadis, RamSwarup, Voice of India. It would be very interesting o compare what was happening in Mecca before rise of Islam. 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. 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. Meccan Trade and Rise of Islam. Mohammed and the rise of Islam, Margoliouth D.S.. Crone P., Oxford, 1987, pp 234-45. Crone demonstrates that Islam did not originate in Mecca. Mecca is located in the Hejaz region of what is today Saudi Arabia. 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.