- Commerce, History, Islam, Histoire
"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.
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- Author
- Patricia Crone
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 300
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press, Gorgias Press LLC, Basil Blackwell
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781593331023
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“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.”
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