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Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam Patricia Crone
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The two dominant powers in the region are the Romans and the Persians, with a long history of fighting over territory and trade routes. Local Arab tribes In the spring of 624, Muhammad received word from his intelligence sources that a trade caravan, commanded by Abu Sufyan and guarded by thirty to forty men, was travelling from Syria back to Mecca. As a result of the conference with the Jewish delegation, however, Abu Sufyan became more conscious of the danger to the Meccan trade by the further spread of Islam. The first one I turned to was Patricia Crone's book on Mecca. Rather than in Central Arabia, where the development of trade, but also the diffusion of Judaism and Christianity, was still was very limited in the first third of the 7th century (Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam, Princeton U.P. The problems in early Arabic historiography are addressed more explicitly by Patricia Crone in two later monographs: (1) Slaves on Horses; (2) Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. Islam began in the year 666 AD." In her book, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam, Dr. The border between their two empires keeps . Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. The Myth of Mecca (as the early center of Islam) - "Let's face it . Crone demonstrates that Islam did not originate in Mecca. She begins the book by pointing out that it's a commonplace that Mecca was the center of a trading empire and that this empire had a role in the rise of Islam. The Muslim victory also signaled other tribes that a new power had arisen in Arabia and strengthened Muhammad's authority as leader of the often fractious community in Medina. Comparative Religion, Institute of Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Leiden, The Netherlands. 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. Imagine the Middle East in the early centuries of the Common Era.