Patricia Crone (b.1945), scholar

Patricia Crone (b.1945) is a Danish scholar, active in the United Kingdom and the United States.

Biography

Patricia Crone was born 1945 in Denmark.

She studied at the University of London, receiving her Ph.D. (1973) from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) under Bernard Lewis.

After serving as a Senior Research Fellow at the University of London’s Warburg Institute (1973-76), she taught Islamic Studies at Oxford University (1977-90), and Cambridge University (1990-94).

In 1994 she moved to the United States, being appointed at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton where she became Andrew W. Mellon professor in 1997.

Works on Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Origins

Books

• Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World (1977 Crone, Cook), book

• Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity (1980 Crone), book

• God's Caliph: Religious Authority in the Fisrt Centuries of Islam (1986 Crone, Hinds), book

• Roman, Provincial, and Islamic Law: The Origins of the islamic Patronate (1987 Crone), book

• Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam (1987 Crone), book

• From Arabian Tribes to Islamic Empire: Army, State, and Society in the Near East, c. 600-850 (2008 Crone), book

External links

• Wikipedia