Mecca was a barren place, and barren places do not make natural halts, and least of all when they are found at a short distance from famously green environments. Why should caravans have made a steep descent to the barren lands of Mecca when they could have stopped at Ta’if ?

کرون ادامه می دهد که درعربستان جنس و کالای در دسترس نبود که ترابری شود و سود بیآورد که با کمک آن بتوان یک شهر پیرامونی را توسعه داد که فاقد منابع طبیعی بود:

What commodity was available in Arabia that could be transported such a distance , through such an inhospitable environment , an still be sold at a profit large enough to support the growth of a city in a peripheral site bereft of natural resources

پاتریشیا کرون همچنین اشاره می کند که هیچ سندی، خارج از ادبیات سنتی اسلامی، به مکه اشاره ای نکرده…… در سوره 3:90 از بکه ( Bakka ) نام برده شده و اسلام سنتی معتقد است که بکه همان مکه است. دراسناد ما نام مکه مشاهده نمی شود:

Negatively, no early source outside the Islamic Literary tradition refers to Mecca by name.
Positively, the koran itself tells us the name of the place where the sanctuary actually was: Bakka (3:39 ) . The Islamic tradition is naturally at pains to identify this place with Meca, and none of our sources shed any light on ins original location.