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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. In addition, she seeks to elucidate sources on which we should reconstruct our picture of the birth of the new religion in Arabia.

Islam --- History --- Mecca (Saudi Arabia) --- Arabian Peninsula --- Makkah (Saudi Arabia) --- Mekka (Saudi Arabia) --- Umm al-Qurá (Saudi Arabia) --- Mecque (Saudi Arabia) --- Makka (Saudi Arabia) --- Macoraba (Saudi Arabia) --- Makkah al-Mukarramah (Saudi Arabia) --- Meca (Saudi Arabia) --- Arabia --- Commerce --- History.

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Making sense of Saudi Arabia is crucially important today. The kingdom's western province contains the heart of Islam, and it is the United States' closest Arab ally and the largest producer of oil in the world. However, the country is undergoing rapid change: its aged leadership is ceding power to a new generation, and its society, dominated by young people, is restive. Saudi Arabia has long remained closed to foreign scholars, with a select few academics allowed into the kingdom over the past decade. This book presents the fruits of their research as well as those of the most prominent Saudi academics in the field. This volume focuses on different sectors of Saudi society and examines how the changes of the past few decades have affected each. It reflects new insights and provides the most up-to-date research on the country's social, cultural, economic and political dynamics.

Social change --- Islam --- Social aspects --- Saudi Arabia --- Social conditions --- Politics and government --- Economic conditions --- Religion --- Social change - Saudi Arabia --- Islam - Social aspects - Saudi Arabia --- Saudi Arabia - Social conditions --- Saudi Arabia - Politics and government - 1982 --- -Saudi Arabia - Economic conditions --- Saudi Arabia - Religion --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Religion.

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Islamic architecture --- Military architecture --- History. --- History. --- Jiddah (Saudi Arabia) --- Turkey --- History. --- History

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Extensive efforts to develop human capital are under way in the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere in the Gulf, and they are increasingly setting expectations for how people ought to behave socially and economically that are in tension with how they are expected to behave politically.

Human capital --- Government policy --- Saudi Arabia --- Persian Gulf States --- Social conditions.

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Tribes --- Tribal government --- Jāsir, Ḥamad. --- Saudi Arabia --- Ethnic relations.