About the Author

Hugh Kennedy is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of the acclaimed Mongols, Huns and Vikings.

Reviews

"Saudi Aramco World" "Brings the early Abbasid dynasty alive...Given the dryness of many histories of the period, this approach is a refreshing change."

Baghdad, Virtually nothing remains of the city of the early Abassid caliphs but this nineteenth-century drawing by Lieutenant J. Fitzjames, R.N., captures something of the atmosphere, the domes and palaces by the Tigris and the bridge of boats across the river.