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The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates
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The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates Paperback - 2022

by Kennedy, Hugh

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  • Title The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates
  • Author Kennedy, Hugh
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 402
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Taylor & Francis Group
  • Date 2022-07-07
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 47563868-6
  • ISBN 9780367366896 / 0367366894
  • Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.87 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.21 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Library of Congress subjects Islamic Empire - History - 750-1258, Islamic Empire - History - 622-661
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2021057075
  • Dewey Decimal Code 956.013

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The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from c.600 to 1050 AD, the period in which Islamic society was formed.

Beginning with the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islam, Hugh Kennedy goes on to explore the great Arab conquests of the seventh century and the golden age of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates when the world of Islam was politically and culturally far more developed than the West. The crisis of the tenth century put an end to the political unity of the Muslim world and saw the emergence of the Fatimid caliphate in Egypt and independent dynasties in the Eastern Islamic world. The book concludes with the advent of Seljuk Turkish rule in the mid-eleventh century. This new edition is fully updated to take into account recent research and there are two entirely new chapters covering the economic background during the period, and the north-east of Iran in the post Abbasid period. Based on extensive reading of the original Arabic sources, Kennedy breaks away from the Orientalist tradition of seeing early Islamic history as a series of ephemeral rulers and pointless battles by drawing attention to underlying long-term social and economic processes.

The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates deals with issues of continuing and increasing relevance in the twenty-first century, when it is, perhaps, more important than ever to understand the early development of the Islamic world. Students and scholars of early Islamic history will find this book a clear, informative and readable introduction to the subject.

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About the author

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).

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