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- catalog abstract ""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 in these records was short-lived and that the Muslim sources make no mention of such goods. In addition to changing our view of the role of trade, the author reexamines the evidence for the religious status of pre-Islamic Mecca and seeks to elucidate the nature of the sources on which we should reconstruct our picture of the birth of the new religion in Arabia." http://books.google.com/books?id=VWL-_hRsm2IC.".
- catalog contributor b681880.
- catalog coverage "Arabian Peninsula Commerce History.".
- catalog coverage "Mecca (Saudi Arabia) Commerce History.".
- catalog created "c1987.".
- catalog date "1987".
- catalog date "c1987.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1987.".
- catalog description ""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 in these records was short-lived and that the Muslim sources make no mention of such goods. In addition to changing our view of the role of trade, the author reexamines the evidence for the religious status of pre-Islamic Mecca and seeks to elucidate the nature of the sources on which we should reconstruct our picture of the birth of the new religion in Arabia." http://books.google.com/books?id=VWL-_hRsm2IC.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 271-291.".
- catalog description "The Classical spice trade -- The "Meccan spice trade" -- What did the Meccans export? -- Where were the Meccans active? -- What Meccan trade was not -- What Meccan trade may have been -- The sanctuary and Meccan trade -- The sources -- The rise of Islam.".
- catalog extent "vii, 300 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0691054800 (alk. paper) :".
- catalog issued "1987".
- catalog issued "c1987.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Arabian Peninsula Commerce History.".
- catalog spatial "Mecca (Saudi Arabia) Commerce History.".
- catalog subject "382/.09538 19".
- catalog subject "HF3763.Z9 M43 1987".
- catalog subject "Islam History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Classical spice trade -- The "Meccan spice trade" -- What did the Meccans export? -- Where were the Meccans active? -- What Meccan trade was not -- What Meccan trade may have been -- The sanctuary and Meccan trade -- The sources -- The rise of Islam.".
- catalog title "Meccan trade and the rise of Islam / Patricia Crone.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".