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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kennedy, Hugh (Hugh N.), author.

Series:

History of the Near East

A History of the Near East

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic Empire--History--622-661.

Islamic Empire.

History.

Islamic Empire--History--661-750.

Islamic Empire--History--750-1258.

Islamic Empire--History.

Local Subjects:

Islamic Empire--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 424 pages : genealogical tables, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Longman, 1986.

Summary:

"Dr. Kennedy gives a full and clear account of the Near East in the formative period of Islamic society. Beginning with the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islam, he goes on to examine the great Arab conquests and the golden age of Islam from the eighth to the tenth centuries. The book closes with the period of political fragmentation in the tenth and eleventh centuries when the early unity was lost, never to be recovered." http://books.google.com/books?id=jzVtAAAAMAAJ.

Contents:

The matrix of the Muslim world : the Near East in the early seventh century

The birth of the Islamic state

Conquest and division in the time of the Rāshidūn caliphs

The Umayyad caliphate

The early 'Abbasid caliphate

The middle 'Abbasid caliphate

The structure of politics in the Muslim commonwealth

The Buyid confederation

The Kurds

The Hamdanids

Bedouin political movements and dynasties

Early Islamic Egypt and the Fatimid Empire

Postscript: The coming of the Seljuks.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 389-397) and index.

Local Notes:

CJS copy acc.# 204721

Other Format:

Online version: Kennedy, Hugh (Hugh N.). Prophet and the age of the caliphates.

ISBN:

0582493129

9780582493124

0582493137

9780582493131

9780582193130

0582193133

OCLC:

12262139