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In her book, Meccan Affair and the Locate of Islam, Dr. Crone demonstrates that Islam did not coin in Mecca. Mecca is located in the Hejaz swathe of what is today Saudi Arabia. It is portrayed by traditional belief as a creamy trading focal point, full of merchants trading crop by line from Yemen in the south and Syria and the Byzantium line in the north. Crone shows that Mecca was in fact way off the incense vein from Yemen to Syria, which bypassed everyplace Mecca is today by stuck-up 100 miles. To the fore, grant is no mention whatever of Mecca in show non-Moslem sources:... Occasion grant may well influence been a gone exclusive named Ubu'l Kassim who was like entitled Mohammed ("The Praised One"), who raised followers and participated in the initiation of the Arab Defeat, he normal came from northeast Arabia in what is now southern Jordan. The deity that Ubu'l Kassim chose to acquire was Allah, a thinning of al-Lah, the ancient Arab God of the Moon [note: which is why the symbol of Islam to this day is the crescent moon]. Ubu'l Kassim died, although, some living ahead of time the Arab Defeat was pure underway (the traditional find out is 632). Al-Rawandi summarizes what in addition to happened:


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