Patricia Crone (1945–2015)
Author of Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World
About the Author
Patricia Crone was born on March 28, 1945 in Kyndelose, Denmark. She received undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. She taught at Oxford University and Cambridge University before joining the Institute for Advanced Study, an show more independent research center, where she was a professor from 1997 until retiring in 2014. She explored archaeological records and contemporary Greek and Aramaic sources to challenge views on the roots and evolution of Islam. She wrote numerous books during her lifetime including Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World written with Michael Cook, God's Rule: Government and Islam: Six Centuries of Medieval Islamic Political Thought, and The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran. She died from cancer on July 11, 2015 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Patricia Crone
The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands: Collected Studies in Three Volumes, Volume 2 (Islamic History and Civilization) (2016) 10 copies
Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness: Collected Studies in Three Volumes, Volume 3 (Islamic History and Civilization) (2016) 8 copies
From Kavad to Al-Ghazali: Religion, Law and Political Thought in the Near East, c.600-c.1100 (Variorum Collected Studies Series) (2005) 4 copies
Associated Works
War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, The Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica (1999) — Contributor — 40 copies
Studies in Honour of Clifford Edmund Bosworth: Hunter of the East : Arabic and Semitic Studies (1999) — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Canonical name
- Crone, Patricia
- Other names
- Krūn, Bātrīsiyā
- Birthdate
- 1945-03-28
- Date of death
- 2015-07-11
- Gender
- female
- Education
- University of Copenhagen
King's College, London
SOAS, University of London - Occupations
- Islamwissenschaftlerin
historian - Nationality
- Denmark
- Birthplace
- Roskilde, Denmark
- Associated Place (for map)
- Roskilde, Denmark
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Well, this book will make it a lot harder to believe the societies and economies in sword and sorcery fantasies. It breaks down how pre-industrial societies actually worked, all around the world, and especially how we can misunderstand them using models from the modern, industrial world.
The scope is tremendous, nearly 10,000 years of societies in Europe, Asia, India, Arabia, Africa, and the Americas. A small part of this could be a lifetime of study.
I have the 2003 edition, but I don't show more think there is much different between the editions, mostly some material near the end about the modern world. They seemed to have switched to a low-budget proofreader around page 150, because there was about one typo per page for a bit. And one later page had two versions of two different lines, oops! But none of that interfered with what I learned from the book. show less
The scope is tremendous, nearly 10,000 years of societies in Europe, Asia, India, Arabia, Africa, and the Americas. A small part of this could be a lifetime of study.
I have the 2003 edition, but I don't show more think there is much different between the editions, mostly some material near the end about the modern world. They seemed to have switched to a low-budget proofreader around page 150, because there was about one typo per page for a bit. And one later page had two versions of two different lines, oops! But none of that interfered with what I learned from the book. show less
Truly an ambitious book: Patricia Crone tries to give a cross-section of pre-industrial societies. What she certainly succeeds in is showing how different these societies were from later industrial and post-industrial societies. The breadth of her perspective is also meritorious: almost 5,000 years of human history, spread over the whole world. But she clearly gets stuck in various methodological and epistemological problems.
This book originally appeared in 1989, and although this is the 3rd show more updated edition (published in 2015, just before her death), it contains only minor changes; for example, the bibliography has only 2 works after 1988. The recent historiographical approaches of Global, Transnational, Interconnected and Big History clearly have made this book very dated.
More on that in my History account on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3367961876 show less
This book originally appeared in 1989, and although this is the 3rd show more updated edition (published in 2015, just before her death), it contains only minor changes; for example, the bibliography has only 2 works after 1988. The recent historiographical approaches of Global, Transnational, Interconnected and Big History clearly have made this book very dated.
More on that in my History account on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3367961876 show less
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