Patricia Crone
| Patricia Crone | |
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| Born |
March 28, 1945 Kyndeløse Sydmark, Rye Parish, Lejre Municipality, Denmark |
| Died | July 11, 2015 (aged 70) Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. |
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| Main interests | Islamic Studies; Quranic (Islamic) studies; scriptural exegesis; scholarship on Islamic origins |
| Notable works | Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World (with M.A. Cook); Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam |
Patricia Crone (March 28, 1945 – July 11, 2015) was a Danish-American author, scholar, orientalist, and historian, specializing in early Islamic history.
Crone's lasting contribution to the field of Islamic Studies is the fundamental questioning of the historicity of the Islamic traditions about the beginnings of Islam, by which she significantly contributed as a major representative of the "Revisionist School" to a paradigm shift in Islamic Studies among the Western Orientalists.
Crone was born in Kyndeløse, Roskilde, Denmark, on March 28, 1945. After taking the forprøve, or preliminary exam, at Copenhagen University, she went to Paris to learn French, and then to London where she determined to get into a university to become fluent in English. In 1974 she earned her PhD at the University of London, where she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Warburg Institute until 1977. She was accepted as an occasional student at King's College London and followed a course in medieval European history, especially church-state relations. In 1977, Crone became a University Lecturer in Islamic history and a Fellow of Jesus College at Oxford University. Crone became Assistant University Lecturer in Islamic studies and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College at Cambridge University in 1990 and held several positions at Cambridge. She served as University Lecturer in Islamic studies from 1992 to 1994, and as Reader in Islamic history from 1994-97. In 1997, she was appointed to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where she was named as Andrew W. Mellon Professor. From 2002 until her death in 2015, she was a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Social Evolution & History.
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