Kennedy, Hugh.
The Prophet and the age of the Caliphates : the Islamic Near East from the sixth to the eleventh century / Hugh Kennedy. - 2nd ed. - Harlow : Pearson Longman, c2004. - xiv, 419 p. : maps ; 24 cm. - A History of the Near East .
Previous ed.: London : Longman, 1986. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780582405257
Islamic Empire--History--662-750.
Islamic Empire--History--750-1258.
Islamic Empire--Kings and rulers.
Middle East--History.
The Prophet and the age of the Caliphates : the Islamic Near East from the sixth to the eleventh century / Hugh Kennedy. - 2nd ed. - Harlow : Pearson Longman, c2004. - xiv, 419 p. : maps ; 24 cm. - A History of the Near East .
Previous ed.: London : Longman, 1986. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780582405257
Islamic Empire--History--662-750.
Islamic Empire--History--750-1258.
Islamic Empire--Kings and rulers.
Middle East--History.