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Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam

Patricia Crone author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Gorgias Press

Published:9th Apr '15

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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. In addition, she seeks to elucidate sources on which we should reconstruct our picture of the birth of the new religion in Arabia.

ISBN: 9781593331023

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

309 pages