Akademia Patricia Crone seorang pengkaji yang banya menulis mengenai Islam. Sebuah artikel telah ditulis mengenai penglibatan PC. Artikel bertajuk 'Patricia Crone and the “secular tradition” of early Islamic historiography'. Petikan para conclusion; Crone identified three distinct bodies of material within early Islamic historiography, as contained within extant Islamicliterary sources: a religious tradition, comprising doctrinal reports from the Prophet and others (aḥādīth), Propheticalbiography (maghāzī/sīrah), biographical dictionaries (ṭabaqāt) of religious scholars, and other such religiously-orientedmaterial; a tribal tradition, comprising pre-Islamic Arabian battle stories (ayyām al-ʿarab), Arabo-Islamic conquestreports (futūḥ), genealogy (nasab), prosopographical lists of battle-participants, tribal personalia, and other suchmaterial related to tribal Arabia; and finally, a so-called secular tradition, comprising state-oriented chronology andprosopography (i.e., lists o...