Hugh N. Kennedy

Hugh N. Kennedy MA, PhD (Cantab.) is Professor of Arabic in the Faculty of Languages and Cultures at School of Oriental and African Studies, London, formerly professor of history at University of St Andrews. Among his research topics is the History of the Islamic Middle East, Islamic Archaeology and Muslim Spain.

Bibliography

*1981, "The Early Abbasid Caliphate; a Political History" (Barnes and Noble, London and New York).

*1986, "The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates, 600–1050" (London, Longman)

*1990, "Al-Mansur and al-Mahdi; being an annotated translation of vol. xxix of the History of al-Tabari" (Albany, State University of New York Press)

*1996, "Muslim Spain and Portugal: a political history of al–Andalus" (London, Longman) (ISBN 0 582 299683)
1994, "Crusader Castles" (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press) (ISBN 0 521 42068 7)

*2001, "The Armies of the Caliphs: military and society in the early Islamic State" (London, Routledge) (ISBN 0 415 25092 7)

*2003, "Mongols, Huns and Vikings: Nomads at War" (London, Cassell) (ISBN 0 304 35292 6)

*2004, "The Court of the Caliphs" (London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson) (ISBN 0 297 83000 7)

*2004, Revised ed. of "Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates, 600–1050". (London, Longman) (ISBN 0 582 40525 4)

*2007, "The Great Arab Conquests. How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In". (London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson) (ISBN 0 297 84657 4)