"Arabia Without Spices": an alternate hypothesis: the issue of "Makkan trade and the rise of Islam".

From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Heck, Gene W. | Copyright information

I. The Historiographic Challenge

1. The Methodological Confrontation

More than fifteen years have passed since Patricia Crone stunned the world of orientalism by positing dramatically new hypotheses regarding the role of Makkah in sixth to seventh-century A.D. trans-Arabian trade. Seeking to discern the economic dynamic of the early Islamic state, her thesis contended that both the composition and direction of HijaziNajdi trade in the era leading up to the ris...

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