The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates
The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century
By Hugh Kennedy
1986
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Based on original Arabic sources, the new edition of this well-established text has been comprehensively revised. The book covers the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islam, through the great days of the Ummayad and Abbasid Caliphates (8th-10th centuries), to the period of political fragmentation which followed it when Islam lost its core unity, never to be recovered.
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Hugh Kennedy
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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).
