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Glen Bowersock is one of the leading US historians on Late Antiquity, and in "The Crucible of Islam" (2017) he shows why Crone was wrong in denying the historicity/importance of Makkah :
Glen Bowersock is one of the leading US historians on Late Antiquity, and in "The Crucible of Islam" (2017) he shows why Crone was wrong in denying the historicity/importance of Makkah :
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"Even Crone, who could bring herself to acknowledge only Meccan trade in hides and leather, eventually came to realize that [...]"
"Even Crone, who could bring herself to acknowledge only Meccan trade in hides and leather, eventually came to realize that [...]"
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"Crone had even denied that Mecca was known at all before the seventh century, but to argue for this she was obliged to ignore the apparent presence of this site in the second- century register of the geographer Ptolemy."
"Crone had even denied that Mecca was known at all before the seventh century, but to argue for this she was obliged to ignore the apparent presence of this site in the second- century register of the geographer Ptolemy."
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"Ptolemy’s Makoraba would therefore seem not only to preserve the ancient nomenclature and coordinates of Mecca, but even a correlative, reverential adjective, which presumably reflected the existence of the Ka‘ba."
"Ptolemy’s Makoraba would therefore seem not only to preserve the ancient nomenclature and coordinates of Mecca, but even a correlative, reverential adjective, which presumably reflected the existence of the Ka‘ba."
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"It would therefore be reasonable to interpret these scraps in Ammianus and Ptolemy as confirming what we would naturally infer in any case, that a pagan shrine or ḥaram that included a conspicuous black cube as a sacred relic would have been known as a holy city."
"It would therefore be reasonable to interpret these scraps in Ammianus and Ptolemy as confirming what we would naturally infer in any case, that a pagan shrine or ḥaram that included a conspicuous black cube as a sacred relic would have been known as a holy city."
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"Fortunately the Qur’ān itself provides a well- known clue to the nature of the trading activity of late antique Mecca."
"Fortunately the Qur’ān itself provides a well- known clue to the nature of the trading activity of late antique Mecca."
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