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Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam Patricia Crone
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Local Arab tribes In the spring of 624, Muhammad received word from his intelligence sources that a trade caravan, commanded by Abu Sufyan and guarded by thirty to forty men, was travelling from Syria back to Mecca. The problems in early Arabic historiography are addressed more explicitly by Patricia Crone in two later monographs: (1) Slaves on Horses; (2) Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. Crone demonstrates that Islam did not originate in Mecca. The Muslim victory also signaled other tribes that a new power had arisen in Arabia and strengthened Muhammad's authority as leader of the often fractious community in Medina. Crone showed the incense route from Yemen to Syria bypassed Mecca by over 100 miles. In her book, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam, Dr. Rather than in Central Arabia, where the development of trade, but also the diffusion of Judaism and Christianity, was still was very limited in the first third of the 7th century (Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam, Princeton U.P. Mecca is located in the Hejaz region of what is today Saudi Arabia. Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam. Patricia Crone, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam (1987).