Title: The prophet and the age of the caliphates : the Islamic Near East from the sixth to the eleventh century /
Authors: Kennedy, Hugh
Publisher: Longman,
Year: 1986
Subjects: Islamic Empire History; Islamic Empire History; Islamic Empire History
Abstract: "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."
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 Rashidun 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.