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Hugh Kennedy

The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates

The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century

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The Prophet and the Age of Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from c.600-1050AD, 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 arrival of the Seljuk Turks and the period of political fragmentation which followed shattered this early unity, never to be recovered.This new edition is fully updated to take into account the considerable amount… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-317-37639-2
  • EAN: 9781317376392
  • Produktnummer: 19569994
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
  • Seitenangabe: 382 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Auflage: 3. Auflage
  • Abbildungen: 4 schwarz-weiße Zeichnungen

Über den Autor


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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