Abstract:Patricia Crone famously identified three distinct sub-traditions within early Islamic historiography: a "religious tradition", a "tribal tradition", and a "secular tradition".Whereas the first is extremely unreliable and the second is partially unreliable regarding early Islamic history in general (c. 600-750 CE), Crone argued that the third provides "a coherent historical account", at least as far back as the beginning of the Umayyad period (c. 661 CE). Some confusion has since arisen over the identity of thi… Show more
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