Patricia Crone

Patricia Crone, Ph.D., (born 1945, [cite web
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quote= Crone’s work has challenged long-held explanations and provided new approaches for the social, economic, legal and religious patterns that transformed Late Antiquity.]

Career

Patricia Crone completed her undergraduate and graduate work at the University of London,Fact|date=January 2008 receiving a Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1974. For the next three years, she served as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of London’s Warburg Institute. In 1977, she became a University Lecturer in Islamic history and a Fellow of Jesus College at Oxford University. Dr. Crone became Assistant University Lecturer in Islamic studies and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge University in 1990, and has held several positions at Cambridge since then. She served as University Lecturer in Islamic studies from 1992-94, and Reader in Islamic history from 1994 until her appointment to the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study where she became Andrew W. Mellon professor in 1997. Since 2002, she has been a member of the Editorial Board of the journal "Social Evolution & History".

Patricia Crone and her associate Michael Cook, working at SOAS at the time, provided an analysis of early Islamic history by looking at the only surviving contemporary accounts of the rise of Islam, written in Armenian, Greek, Aramaic and Syriac by witnesses. They claimed that Islam, as represented by admittedly biased sources, was in essence a tribal rebellion against the Byzantine and Persian empires with deep roots in Judaism, and that Arabs and Jews were allies in these conquering communities.

Bibliography

Sole author

* "Slaves on Horses : The Evolution of the Islamic Polity" (1980) ISBN 0-521-52940-9
* "Pre-Industrial Societies : Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World" (2003) ISBN 1-85168-311-9
* ". Six centuries of medieval islamic political thought" (2004). Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-13290-5. Also ISBN 0-231-13291-3.
* "Meccan Trade And The Rise Of Islam" (1987) ISBN 1-59333-102-9
* "Roman, Provincial and Islamic Law : The Origins of the Islamic Patronate" (1987 Paperback:2002) ISBN 0-521-52949-2
* "Medieval Islamic Political Thought" (2005). Edinburgh University Press, New Ed edition. ISBN 0-7486-2194-6

Coauthor

* "", (1977) ISBN 0-521-29754-0
* "The Formation of Islam : Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800" (2002) ISBN 0-521-58813-8
* "Islamic Historiography" (2002) ISBN 0-521-62936-5
* "" (2003) ISBN 0-521-54111-5

Articles

* [http://www.opendemocracy.net/faith-europe_islam/mohammed_3866.jsp August 2006 article by Patricia Crone summarizing her views: What do we actually know about Mohammed? ]

References

External links

* [http://www.ias.edu/about/faculty-and-emeriti/crone Institute for Advanced Study: Faculty and Emeriti: Crone] — homepage in Princeton.
* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023113/0231132905.HTM Book God's Rule book review]
* [http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/crone.html Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam] section beginning at page 231