Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam

by Patricia Crone

Book Overview

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 the conventional opinion is based on classical accounts of the trade between south Arabia and the Mediterranean some 600 years earlier than the age of Muhammad, Dr. Crone argues that the land route described...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1463241720
• ISBN13: 9781463241728
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"