
Hugh Kennedy
Author · 10 books
NOTE: There is more than one author with this name on Goodreads. Hugh^Kennedy Has studies Arabic at the Middle East Centre for Arabic Studies. Went on to read Arabic, Persian & History at Cambridge. Taught in the Department of Medieval History at St Andrews since 1972, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2000).
Series
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Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court
Formal and Informal Politics in the Caliphate of Al-Muqtadir
2013

When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World
The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty
2004

The Great Arab Conquests
How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In
2007

Crusader Castles
1994

Caliphate
The History of an Idea
2016

The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates
The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century
1986

Muslim Spain and Portugal
A Political History of al-Andalus
1996

The Early Abbasid Caliphate
A Political History
1981

Mongols, Huns and Vikings
2002

The Armies of the Caliphs
Military and Society in the Early Islamic State
2001