Trade and the Religious Dimension in Pre-Islamic Arab Society: A Historical Review in the Light of Selected Models؛ التجارة والبعد الديني في المجتمع العربي قبل الإسلام: مراجعة تاريخية في ضوء نماذج منتقاة
الباحث الأول:
Central Asian Studies of Social Science and History
الباحثين الآخرين:
لايوجد
المجلة:
Central Asian Studies of Social Science and History
تاريخ النشر:
30 أغسطس، 2025
مختصر البحث:
This article seeks to provide a critical historical review of studies that have addressed the nature of the
relationship between trade and the religious dimension in pre-Islamic Arabian Peninsula society. The
article adopts an analytical review ap…
This article seeks to provide a critical historical review of studies that have addressed the nature of the
relationship between trade and the religious dimension in pre-Islamic Arabian Peninsula society. The
article adopts an analytical review approach by categorising previous studies into three main themes:
Studies that focused on commercial activity, caravan routes and markets, studies that dealt with the
religious structure and its doctrinal and ritual manifestations, and studies that explored the dialectic of
interaction between trade and religion. Through this article, the researcher reached the conclusion that
most of the classical sources and modern studies that dealt with research in this field agreed
unequivocally that Mecca was a pivotal center where trade and religious rituals overlapped. The article
also concludes that understanding the interaction between trade and religion requires the use of multiple
approaches (economic history, sociology of religion, and anthropology), which opens up new horizons
for researchers.
