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Hugh N. Kennedy

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Gender Male
Age 76
Date of birth October 22,1947
Zodiac sign Libra
Born Hythe
United Kingdom
Alma mater Pembroke College
Thesisthe early Abbasid Caliphate
Institutions SOAS University of London
University of London
University of St Andrews
Job Historian
Awards Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellow of the British Academy
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Date of Upd.
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The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In
The prophet and the age of the caliphates
Caliphate: The History of an Idea
Muslim Spain and Portugal
The early Abbasid Caliphate
Crusader Castles
When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty
The Court of the Caliphs
Mongols, Huns and Vikings
Everything looks impressive
The Byzantine And Early Islamic Near East
Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court: Formal and Informal Politics in the Caliphate of Al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32)
Intellectual Traditions in Islam
The Armies of the Caliphs: Military and Society in the Early Islamic State
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Hugh Nigel Kennedy, FRSE, FRAS, FBA is a British medieval historian and academic. He specialises in the history of the early Islamic Middle East, Muslim Spain and the Crusades. From 1997 to 2007, he was Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews.

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