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The Prophet and the age of the Caliphates : the Islamic Near East from the sixth to the eleventh century / Hugh Kennedy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: A History of the Near EastPublication details: Harlow : Pearson Longman, c2004.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xiv, 419 p. : maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780582405257
Subject(s): Summary: 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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REGULAR University of Wollongong in Dubai Islamic Collection 956.013 KE PR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available T0037902
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940.10882971 WA IN The influence of Islam on medieval Europe / 953.8053 AL IS Islam and political reform in Saudi Arabia : 956 ZU BE Beyond Islam : 956.013 KE PR The Prophet and the age of the Caliphates : 962.05 WI MO Mobilizing Islam :

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.

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