Background
Patricia Crone was born on March 28, 1945 in Kyndelose, Hyllinge, Denmark. She was a daughter of Thomas Georg Lonborg and Vibeke Crone. She had four siblings.
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, United Kingdom
In 1969 Patricia Crone received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1974.
(This is a controversial study of the origins of Islamic c...)
This is a controversial study of the origins of Islamic civilization, first published in 1977. By examining non-Muslim sources, the authors point out the intimate link between the Jewish religion and the earliest forms of Islam. As a serious, scholarly attempt to open up a new, exploratory path of Islamic history, the book has already engendered much debate. This paperback edition will make the authors' conclusions widely accessible to teachers and students of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
https://www.amazon.com/Hagarism-Making-Islamic-Patricia-Crone/dp/0521211336/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Hagarism%3A+The+Making+of+the+Islamic+World&qid=1577087237&s=books&sr=1-1
1977
(Slave soldiers are a distinctively Muslim phenomenon. Tho...)
Slave soldiers are a distinctively Muslim phenomenon. Though virtually unknown in the non-Muslim world, they have been a constant and pervasive feature of the Muslim Middle East from the ninth century AD into modern times. Why did Muslim rulers choose to place military and political power in the hands of imported slaves? It is this question which Dr Crone seeks to answer. Concentrating on the period from the rise of the Umayyads to the dissolution of the 'Abbasid empire (roughly AD 650-850), she documents the consequences of the fusion between religion and politics in Islam, which she sees as an essential forging characteristic of the Muslim social structure and state. Primarily addressed to specialists and advanced students of Arabic and Islamic history, the book will also appeal to comparative historians and social anthropologists.
https://www.amazon.com/Slaves-Horses-Evolution-Islamic-Polity/dp/0521229618/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Slaves+on+Horses%3A+The+Evolution+of+the+Islamic+Polity&qid=1577087272&s=books&sr=1-1
1980
(This study examines how religious authority was distribut...)
This study examines how religious authority was distributed in early Islam. It argues the case that, as in Shi'ism, it was concentrated in the head of state, rather than dispersed among learned laymen as in Sunnism. Originally the caliph was both head of state and ultimate source of religious law; the Sunni pattern represents the outcome of a conflict between the caliph and early scholars who, as spokesmen of the community, assumed religious leadership for themselves. Many Islamicists have assumed the Shi'ite concept of the imamate to be a deviant development. In contrast, this book argues that it is an archaism preserving the concept of religious authority with which all Muslims began.
https://www.amazon.com/Caliph-University-Cambridge-Oriental-Publications/dp/0521541115/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=God%27s+Caliph%3A+Religious+Authority+in+the+First+Centuries+of+Islam&qid=1577087476&s=books&sr=1-1
1986
(Patricia Crone reassesses one of the most widely accepted...)
Patricia Crone reassesses one of the most widely accepted dogmas in contemporary accounts of the beginnings of Islam, the supposition that Mecca was a trading center thriving on the export of aromatic spices to the Mediterranean. Pointing out that the conventional opinion is based on classical accounts of the trade between south Arabia and the Mediterranean some 600 years earlier than the age of Muhammad, Dr. Crone argues that the land route described in these records was short-lived and that the Muslim sources make no mention of such goods. In addition to changing our view of the role of trade, the author reexamines the evidence for the religious status of pre-Islamic Mecca and seeks to elucidate the nature of the sources on which we should reconstruct our picture of the birth of the new religion in Arabia.
https://www.amazon.com/Meccan-Trade-Islam-Patricia-Crone/dp/1593331029/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Meccan+Trade+and+the+Rise+of+Islam&qid=1577087682&s=books&sr=1-1
1987
(This book examines the cultural origins of Islamic law. S...)
This book examines the cultural origins of Islamic law. Some authorities stress the importance of the contribution of Roman law; others that of Arabian law. Most are agreed that Jewish law contributed, but not explained further. Dr Crone tests the Roman hypothesis with reference to one institution, the patronate, which does indeed appear to owe something to Roman law. He concludes that Roman law contributed only in so far as it was part and parcel of the rather different legal practice of the Near Eastern provinces, and that provincial law would repay further consideration by legal historians.
https://www.amazon.com/Roman-Provincial-Islamic-Law-Civilization/dp/0521529492/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Roman%2C+Provincial%2C+and+Islamic+Law%3A+The+Origins+of+the+Islamic+Patronate&qid=1577087853&s=books&sr=1-1
1987
(Eminent historian Patricia Crone defines the common featu...)
Eminent historian Patricia Crone defines the common features of a wide range of pre-industrial societies, from locations as seemingly disparate as the Mongol Empire and pre-Columbian America, to cultures as diverse as the Ming Dynasty and seventeenth-century France. In a lucid exploration of the characteristics shared by these societies, the author examines such key elements as economic organization, politics, culture, and the role of religion. An essential introductory text for all students of history, Pre-Industrial Societies provides readers with all the necessary tools for gaining a substantial understanding of life in pre-modern times. In addition, as a perceptive insight into a lost world, italso acts as a starting point for anyone interested in the present possibilities and future challenges faced by our own global society.
https://www.amazon.com/Pre-Industrial-Societies-Anatomy-Pre-Modern-World/dp/1780747411/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Pre-Industrial+Societies&qid=1577087944&s=books&sr=1-1
1989
(A tenth-century Iraqi longing for the happy days of the p...)
A tenth-century Iraqi longing for the happy days of the past took to collecting verse graffiti left behind by travelers and others who did not feel at home where they were in order to console himself. Some of the graffiti he had come across himself; others he had only heard about or read in books, and many of them clearly belong in the realm of fiction. But all voiced sentiments similar to his own. The result of his pastime was a little book, at once sad and irreverent, that conjures up his nostalgic mood in a manner not attempted before or since in Arabic literature, rich in nostalgic poetry though it is. The Book of Strangers offers a translation of this work and a discussion of both its authorship, traditionally credited to the famous anthologist Abu 'l Faraj al-Isfahani, and its cultural context. The book is intended for specialists and lay readers alike. The translation is accompanied by a commentary identifying people, places, and other matters; and though the discussion of the author and his cultural context is necessarily more technical, specialist knowledge is not taken for granted.
https://www.amazon.com/Book-Strangers-Medieval-Nostalgia-Princeton/dp/1558762159/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Book+of+Strangers%3A+Medieval+Arabic+Graffiti+on+the+Theme+of+Nostalgia+Crone&qid=1577088187&s=books&sr=1-1
2000
(The epistle ascribed to Salim Ibn Dhakwan is a tract agai...)
The epistle ascribed to Salim Ibn Dhakwan is a tract against 'wrong' doctrines regarding the classification and treatment of opponents. Written by an Ibadi before AD 800 and taking issue with both Kharijite extremists and Murji'ites, it was brought to the attention of Western Islamicists in the early 1970s by Amr Khalifa Ennami, and is here edited, translated, and discussed in full for the first time. The early centuries of Islamic religious thought have become a dynamic field in the last few years, and there is renewed interest in the attempt to use the early literature of the Muslim sects as windows onto the wider scene of doctrinal discussion in the period before the mainstream tradition becomes plentiful. In addition to making available a new source, this study seeks to open up the Ibadi tradition for future research on early Islamic thought, partly by making heavy use of Ibadi sources in its interpretation of Salim's epistle and by partly by offering systematic information about the Ibadi figures and literary works involved in the appendices and bibliography.
https://www.amazon.com/Epistle-Dhakwan-Oxford-Oriental-Monographs/dp/0198152655/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Epistle+of+Salim+ibn+Dhakwan&qid=1577088511&s=books&sr=1-1
2000
(Patricia Crone's God's Rule is a fundamental reconstructi...)
Patricia Crone's God's Rule is a fundamental reconstruction and analysis of Islamic political thought focusing on its intellectual development during the six centuries from the rise of Islam to the Mongol invasions. Based on a wide variety of primary sources - including some not previously considered from the point of view of political thought - this is the first book to examine the medieval Muslim answers to questions crucial to any Western understanding of Middle Eastern politics today, such as why states are necessary, what functions they are meant to fulfill, and whether or why they must be based on religious law.
https://www.amazon.com/Gods-Rule-Government-Centuries-Political/dp/0231132913/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=God%27s+Rule%3A+Government+and+Islam+-+Six+Centuries+of+Medieval+Islamic+Political+Thought&qid=1577088724&s=books&sr=1-1
2004
(This book presents general readers and specialists alike ...)
This book presents general readers and specialists alike with a broad survey of Islamic political thought in the six centuries from the rise of Islam to the Mongol Invasions. Based on a wide variety of sources, it seeks to bring out the enormous scope and high level of historical (and, in some cases, contemporary) interest of medieval Muslim thinking on this subject.
https://www.amazon.com/Medieval-Political-Thought-Patricia-Edinburgh/dp/0748621946/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Medieval+Islamic+Political+Thought&qid=1577088937&s=books&sr=1-1
2005
(This second collection of articles by Patricia Crone brin...)
This second collection of articles by Patricia Crone brings together studies on the development of early Muslim society, above all the army with which it was originally synonymous, from shortly after the Prophet's death until the mid-Abbasid period. The focus is on the changes that the Arab tribesmen underwent thanks to settlement outside Arabia, their strained relations with converts from the conquered population, and their gradual eclipse by them.
https://www.amazon.com/Arabian-Tribes-Islamic-Empire-c-600-850/dp/0754659259/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=From+Arabian+Tribes+to+Islamic+Empire+%3A+Army%2C+State+and+Society+in+the+Near+East+c.+600%E2%80%93850&qid=1577089143&s=books&sr=1-1
2008
(Patricia Crone's latest book is about the Iranian respons...)
Patricia Crone's latest book is about the Iranian response to the Muslim penetration of the Iranian countryside, the revolts subsequently triggered there, and the religious communities that these revolts revealed. The book also describes a complex of religious ideas that, however varied in space and unstable over time, has demonstrated a remarkable persistence in Iran across a period of two millennia. The central thesis is that this complex of ideas has been endemic to the mountain population of Iran and occasionally become epidemic with major consequences for the country, most strikingly in the revolts examined here, and in the rise of the Safavids who imposed Shi'ism on Iran. This learned and engaging book by one of the most influential scholars of early Islamic history casts entirely new light on the nature of religion in pre-Islamic Iran, and on the persistence of Iranian religious beliefs both outside and inside Islam after the Arab conquest.
https://www.amazon.com/Nativist-Prophets-Early-Islamic-Iran/dp/1107642388/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Nativist+Prophets+of+Early+Islamic+Iran%3A+Rural+Revolt+and+Local+Zoroastrianism&qid=1577089227&s=books&sr=1-1
2012
Patricia Crone was born on March 28, 1945 in Kyndelose, Hyllinge, Denmark. She was a daughter of Thomas Georg Lonborg and Vibeke Crone. She had four siblings.
In 1969 Patricia Crone received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1974.
From 1974 to 1977 Patricia Crone was a senior researcher at Warburg Institute. From 1977 to 1990 she served as a lecturer in Islamic history at Oxford University. From 1990 to 1994 she was a lecturer at Cambridge University and a reader in Islamic history from 1994 to 1997.
In 1997 she was appointed to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where she was named Andrew W. Mellon Professor. From 2002 until her death in 2015, she was a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Social Evolution & History.
She is the author of Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity, Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam, Roman, Provincial and Islamic Law: The Origins of the Islamic Patronate, Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World, etc.
(Eminent historian Patricia Crone defines the common featu...)
1989(This second collection of articles by Patricia Crone brin...)
2008(Patricia Crone reassesses one of the most widely accepted...)
1987(Patricia Crone's God's Rule is a fundamental reconstructi...)
2004(Patricia Crone's latest book is about the Iranian respons...)
2012(A tenth-century Iraqi longing for the happy days of the p...)
2000(This book presents general readers and specialists alike ...)
2005(The epistle ascribed to Salim Ibn Dhakwan is a tract agai...)
2000(This is a controversial study of the origins of Islamic c...)
1977(This study examines how religious authority was distribut...)
1986(This book examines the cultural origins of Islamic law. S...)
1987(Slave soldiers are a distinctively Muslim phenomenon. Tho...)
1980Patricia Crone was a member of the Revisionist school of Islamic studies and questioned the historicity of the Islamic traditions about the beginnings of Islam.