Hugh N. Kennedy

Hugh N. Kennedy, often Hugh Kennedy, ( born October 22, 1947) is Professor of Arabic at the Faculty of Languages ​​and Cultures at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

He was appointed to the University of St Andrews in 1972, where he taught history. His main area was the history of the Islamic Middle East and the Iberian Peninsula and the Islamic archeology. Here, his focus was on the early Middle Ages.

In 1981, he dealt with the early Abbasids and delivered in 1986 a survey work on the period between Mohammed and 1050, published in revised form in 2004. In 1990 he gave a presentation as part of a large-scale project for the English translation of the Annals of al -Tabari. In 1994 he published to the castles of the Crusaders, from 1996 to Muslim Iberia. Published in 2007 a ​​survey of his works to the early Islamic expansion. He also dealt repeatedly with other nomadic conquerors, such as the Mongols or the Huns.

Works (selection)

  • The Early Abbasid Caliphate. A Political History, Barnes and Noble, London, New York 1981.
  • The Prophet and the Age of the caliphates, 600-1050, Longman, London, 1986, revised edition 2004.
  • Crusader Castles, Cambridge University Press 1994, revised edition 2001.
  • Muslim Spain and Portugal.. A Political History of al -Andalus, Longman, London 1996 (Spanish under the title Os na Península Ibérica muçulmanos: história política do al -Andalus ) 1999.
  • Georgina Herrman: Monuments of Merv. Traditional Buildings of the Karakum, Society of Antiquaries of London, 1999.
  • The Armies of the Caliphs. Military and Society in the Early Islamic State, Routledge, London 2001 ( Italian 2010).
  • The Court of the Caliphs, London 2004 (Spanish 2008).
  • The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East, Ashgate Publishing, Farnham, 2006.
  • When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World. The Rise and Fall of Islam 's Greatest Dynasty, Da Capo Press, Cambridge, 2005.
  • The Great Arab Conquests. How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live in, London, 2007.
  • Justinianic Plague in Syria and the Archaeological Evidence, in: L. Little (ed.): Plague and the End of Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 87-95.
  • The Mediterranean Frontier: Christianity face to face with Islam, 600-1050, in: Cambridge History of Christianity, Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 178-196.
  • The City and the Nomad, in: The New Cambridge History of Islam, Volume 4: Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 290-305.
  • Syrian Elites from Byzantium to Islam: Survival or Extinction, in: J.Haldon (ed.), Money, Power and Politics in early Islamic Syria, Ashgate, Aldershot 2010, pp. 181-198.

Comments

  • Arabist
  • Historian
  • High school teacher ( School of Oriental and African Studies )
  • Born in 1947
  • Man
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