Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam
Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam

Author: Patricia Crone

Publisher: Gorgias PressLlc

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781593331023

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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.

The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters
The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters

Author: Patricia Crone

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-06-10

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 900431928X

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Patricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 1, The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters, pursues the reconstruction of the religious environment in which Islam arose and develops an intertextual approach to studying the Qurʾānic religious milieu. Volume 2, The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands, examines the reception of pre-Islamic legacies in Islam, above all that of the Iranians. Volume 3, Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness, places the rise of Islam in the context of the ancient Near East and investigates sceptical and subversive ideas in the Islamic world. The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness

God's Caliph
God's Caliph

Author: Patricia Crone

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2003-09-18

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9780521541114

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This study examines how religious authority was distributed in early Islam. It argues the case that, as in Shi'ism, it was concentrated in the head of state, rather than dispersed among learned laymen as in Sunnism. Originally the caliph was both head of state and ultimate source of religious law; the Sunni pattern represents the outcome of a conflict between the caliph and early scholars who, as spokesmen of the community, assumed religious leadership for themselves. Many Islamicists have assumed the Shi'ite concept of the imamate to be a deviant development. In contrast, this book argues that it is an archaism preserving the concept of religious authority with which all Muslims began.

Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century
Mekka in the Latter Part of the 19th Century

Author: C. Snouck Hurgronje

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2006-12-01

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9047411285

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From 1884-1885, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje stayed in Mecca. He became intimately acquainted with the daily life of the Meccans and the thousands of pilgrims from all over the world. This volume deals with social and family life, funeral customs and marriage. It is a unique insight in one the most important places in islamic culture. With a new foreword by Jan Just Witkam

The Qur'ân's Self Image
The Qur'ân's Self Image

Author: Daniel Madigan

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2001-06-18

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 0691059500

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What does the Qur'an mean, then, when it so often calls itself Kitab, a term usually taken both by Muslims and by Western scholars to mean "book"?".

Pre-Industrial Societies
Pre-Industrial Societies

Author: Patricia Crone

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2015-07-02

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1780748043

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Eminent historian Patricia Crone defines the common features of a wide range of pre-industrial societies, from locations as seemingly disparate as the Mongol Empire and pre-Columbian America, to cultures as diverse as the Ming Dynasty and seventeenth-century France. In a lucid exploration of the characteristics shared by these societies, the author examines such key elements as economic organization, politics, culture, and the role of religion. An essential introductory text for all students of history, Pre-Industrial Societies provides readers with all the necessary tools for gaining a substantial understanding of life in pre-modern times. In addition, as a perceptive insight into a lost world, italso acts as a starting point for anyone interested in the present possibilities and future challenges faced by our own global society.