Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam by Patricia Crone

Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam

Patricia Crone

310 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative reflective slow-paced
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Patricia Crone reassesses one of the most widely accepted dogmas in contemporary accounts of the beginnings of Islam, the supposition that Mecca was a trading center thriving on the export of aromatic spices to the Mediterranean. Pointing out that...

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