Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam

Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam

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Author	Patricia Crone
Language	English
Subject	Islam
Published	1987 (Gorgias Press)
Media type	Print
ISBN	1-59333-102-9
OCLC	57718221

Meccan Trade And The Rise Of Islam is a 1987 book written by scholar and historiographer of early Islam Patricia Crone. The book argues that Islam did not originate in Mecca, located in western Saudi Arabia, but in northern Arabia. Her views are hugely different from those of historians and orientalist scholars like W. Montgomery Watt and Fred Donner, who have publications detailing trade activities and the struggles between competing Meccan tribes for control over trade routes.^{[1][page needed][2][page needed][3][page needed][4][page needed][5][page needed]}