4th Edition
The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century
Chapter 1 The matrix of the Muslim world: the Near East in the early seventh century
Chapter 2 The birth of the Islamic state
Chapter 3 Conquest and division in the time of the Rāshidūn caliphs
Chapter 4 The Umayyad caliphate
Chapter 5 The early ‘Abbasid caliphate
Chapter 6 The middle ‘Abbasid caliphate
Chapter 7 The early Islamic economy
Chapter 8 The structure of politics in the Muslim commonwealth
Chapter 9 The Buyid confederation
Chapter 10 The Kurds
Chapter 11 The Hamdanids
Chapter 12 Bedouin political movements and dynasties
Chapter 13 The Eastern Iranian world in the tenth and early eleventh centuries
Chapter 14 Early Islamic Egypt and the Fatimid empire
Postscript: the coming of the Seljuks
Biography
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).
