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.
"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.
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