Patricia Crone, Ph. D., (born 1945, Denmark) is a scholar, author and historiographer of early Islamic history working at the Institute for Advanced Study. She co-authored the ground-breaking and controversial Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World, a book that researched the early history of Islam. Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... The historiography of early Islam is the study of how various historians have treated the events of the first two centuries of Islamic history. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Institute for Advanced Study is a private institution in Princeton Township, New Jersey, designed to foster pure cutting-edge research by scientists in a variety of fields without the complications of teaching or funding, or the agendas of sponsorship. ...

Patricia Crone completed her undergraduate and graduate work at the University of London, 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. The University of London is a federation of colleges and institutes which together constitute one of the worlds largest universities. ... The School of Oriental and African Studies (often abbreviated to SOAS) was founded in 1916 as the School of Oriental Studies at 2, Finsbury Circus, London, England, the then premises of the London Institution. ... The Warburg Institute is a research institution associated with the University of London. ... College name Jesus College Named after Jesus of Nazareth Established 1571 Sister College Jesus College, Cambridge Principal Sir John Krebs JCR President John-Michael Arnold Undergraduates 344 MCR or GCR President Claire Brunel Graduates 134 Homepage Boatclub Jesus College (in full: Jesus College in the University of Oxford of Queen... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford in England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Full name Gonville and Caius College Motto - Named after Edmund Gonville & John Caius Previous names Gonville Hall (1348), Gonville & Caius (1557) Established 1348 Sister College Brasenose College Master Neil McKendrick Location Trinity St Undergraduates 468 Graduates 291 Homepage Boatclub Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, generally known as Caius (though pronounced... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world, with one of the most selective sets of entry requirements in the United Kingdom. ... See also: the Borough of Princeton, New Jersey Princeton Township highlighted in Mercer County. ... Fuld Hall The Institute for Advanced Study is a private institution in Princeton Township, New Jersey, U.S.A. (although it is not part of Princeton University), designed to foster pure cutting-edge research by scientists in a variety of fields without the complications of teaching or funding, or the...

Patricia Crone and her associate Michael Cook, working at SOAS at the time, provided an devastating analysis of early Islamic history by looking at the only surviving contemporary accounts of the Islamic invasion, written in Armenian, Greek, Aramaic and Syriac by Middle Eastern witnesses to the rise of Islam. They found that Islam, as represented by admittedly biased sources, was in essence a tribal conspiracy against the Byzantine and Persian empires with deep roots in Judaism, and that Arabs and Jews were allies in these conquering communities. Michael Cook is an American historian and scholar of Islamic history. ... School of Oriental and African Studies The School of Oriental and African Studies (often abbreviated to SOAS) was founded in 1916 primarily as an institution to train British administrators for colonial postings, and has grown into one of the worlds foremost institutions for the study of Asia and Africa. ... Aramaic is a Semitic language with a four-thousand year history. ... Syriac is an Eastern Aramaic language that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... Byzantine Empire (Greek: Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία) is the term conventionally used since the 19th century to describe the Greek-speaking Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered at its capital in Constantinople. ... The Persian Empire was a series of historical empires that ruled over the Iranian plateau. ... Judaism is the religion of the Jewish people with around 15 million followers as of 2006 [1]. It is one of the first recorded monotheistic faiths and one of the oldest religious traditions still practiced today. ... For other uses, see Arab (disambiguation). ...

Apparent support for their conclusions came from finds made during the restoration of the Great Mosque of Sana'a in Yemen, where labourers working in the roof discovered fragments of Qu'rans that are among the oldest in existence. German scholars Gerd R. Puin who studied the manuscripts discovered that some of the Qu'ranic writing diverges from the authorised version, which by tradition is considered the pure, unadulterated word of God. What's more, some of the writing appears to have been inscribed over earlier, "rubbed-out" versions of the text. This editing supports the belief of Crone that the Qu'ran as we know it does not date from the time of Mohammad. Gerd Rüdiger Puin is a European scholar and the world foremost authority on Quranic paleography, the study and scholarly interpretation of ancient texts. ... Michelangelos depiction of God in the painting Creation of the Sun and Moon in the Sistine Chapel Krishna, the eighth incarnation of Vishnu, one of the manifestations of the ultimate reality or God in Hinduism This article discusses the term God in the context of monotheism and henotheism. ...

Bibliography

Sole author

• Slaves on Horses : The Evolution of the Islamic Polity (2003) ISBN 0521529409
• Pre-Industrial Societies : Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World (2003) ISBN 1851683119
• God's Rule : Government and Islam (2004) ISBN 0231132905
• Meccan Trade And The Rise Of Islam (2004) ISBN 1593331029
• Medieval Islamic Political Thought (2005) ISBN 0748621946

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Coauthor

• Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World, (1980) ISBN 0521297540
• The Formation of Islam : Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (2002) ISBN 0521588138
• Islamic Historiography (2002) ISBN 0521629365
• Roman, Provincial and Islamic Law : The Origins of the Islamic Patronate (2002) ISBN 0521529492
• God's Caliph : Religious Authority in the First Centuries of Islam (2003) ISBN 0521541115

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External links

• Book God's Rule book review

• Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam section beginning at page 231