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Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam Patricia Crone
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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. €�Having unlearnt most of what we knew about Meccan trade, do we find ourselves deprived of our capacity to explain the rise of Islam? Mecca was a centre of commerce and caravans from Asia to Africa passed through on a regular basis. It would be very interesting o compare what was happening in Mecca before rise of Islam. The first one I turned to was Patricia Crone's book on Mecca. Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. Historically, trade and commerce played a crucial role in the spread of Islam. In her book, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam, Dr. 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. Http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/crone.html. Comparative Religion, Institute of Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities, University of Leiden, The Netherlands. 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. What is the Islamic perspective on fair trade? Mecca is located in the Hejaz region of what is today Saudi Arabia.