Mecca and Jeddah were NOT Sea Trade Cities - Mecca - In Search of a Place - Episode 9

Alexander the Great attempted to use the Meccan sea trade route Patricia Crone put forth, but due to no suitable eastern port cities to supply his navy, he had to abandon his ambition to take Egypt by sea. The standard Islamic narrative insists that trade ran up the eastern shoreline which supports the claim of Mecca being a great trade city, yet the topography of the sea and land combined prove that the western, not the eastern, shoreline of the Red Sea was the main trade route. More than that, the city of Mecca doesn’t seem to have an adequate supply of water or people to sustain trade until the 8th century proving its claims of historical greatness as false.

Gerald Hawting's Book: https://www.amazon.com/First-Dynasty-Islam-Umayyad-Caliphate/dp/0415240735

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