1:The matrix of the Muslim world: the near East in the early seventh century 2: The Birth of the Islamic State 3: Conquest and division in the time of the Rashidun Caliphs 4: The Umayyad Caliphate 5: The early ‘Abbasid Caliphate’ 6: The Middle ‘Abbasid caliphate 7: The structure of politics in the Muslim commonwealth 8: The Buyid confederation 9: The Kurds 10: The Hamdanids 11: Bedouin political movements and dynasties 12: Early Islamic Egypt and the Fatimid empire
Hugh Kennedy is Professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London. His previous publications include The Armies of the Caliphs. Military and Society in the Early Islamic State (2001), The Great Arab Conquests. How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In (2007) and (as editor) Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East (2013).
"Ever since its first publication, The Prophet and the Age of the
Caliphates has been a landmark history of the early Islamic Middle
East. In this new third edition, Hugh Kennedy has updated the work
to incorporate a range of the latest research. It remains an
indispensable text for teaching Middle Eastern history at
university level and offers an authoritative overview for the
interested general reader."
Harry Munt, University of York, UK"The Prophet and the Age of the
Caliphates is a lucidly written and very competent work authored by
one of the most prominent scholars of early Islamic history in the
western world. Very reliable and featuring detailed discussions of
the major themes in early Islamic history, it is yet eminently
readable and accessible to the non-specialist audience."
Nikolay Antov, University of Arkansas, USA
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