Patricia Crone | |
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![]() Crone in 2015 | |
Born | |
Died | 11 July 2015 Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. | (aged 70)
Academic work | |
Main interests | Islamic studies; Quranic (Islamic) studies; scriptural exegesis; scholarship on Islamic origins |
Notable works | Hagarism (with Michael Cook); Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam |
Patricia Crone (28 March 1945 – 11 July 2015) was a Danish historian specialising in early Islamic history.[1][2] Crone was a member of the revisionist school of Islamic studies and questioned the historicity of the Islamic traditions about the beginnings of Islam.[3]