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The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates

The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from c.600 to 1050 AD, the period in which Islamic society was formed.

Beginning with the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islam, Hugh Kennedy goes on to explore the great Arab conquests of the seventh century and the golden age of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates when the world of Islam was politically and culturally far more developed than the West. The crisis of the tenth century put an end to the political unity of the Muslim world and saw the emergence of the Fatimid caliphate in Egypt and independent dynasties in the Eastern Islamic world. The book concludes with the advent of Seljuk Turkish rule in the mid-eleventh century. This new edition is fully updated to take into account recent research and there are two entirely new chapters covering the economic background during the period, and the north-east of Iran in the post-Abbasid period. Based on extensive reading of the original Arabic sources, Kennedy breaks away from the Orientalist tradition of seeing early Islamic history as a series of ephemeral rulers and pointless battles by drawing attention to underlying long-term social and economic processes.

The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates deals with issues of continuing and increasing relevance in the twenty-first century, when it is, perhaps, more important than ever to understand the early development of the Islamic world. Students and scholars of early Islamic history will find this book a clear, informative and readable introduction to the subject.

Hugh Kennedy is Professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London. His previous publications include The Armies of the Caliphs: Military and Society in the Early Islamic State (2001), The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In (2007) and (as editor) Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East (2013).

A History of the Near East
  1. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates
  2. The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century
  3. Hugh Kennedy
  1. The Age of the Crusades
  2. The Near East from the Eleventh Century to 1517
  3. P. M. Holt
  1. The Making of the Modern Near East 17921923
  2. M. E. Yapp
  1. The Near East since the First World War
  2. M. E. Yapp
  1. Medieval Persia 10401797
  2. David Morgan
  1. The Formation of Turkey
  2. C. Cahen
  1. The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule, 15161800
  2. J. Hathaway

https://www.routledge.com/A-History-of-the-Near-East/book-series/PEAHNE

Cover image: A street in old Yazd, Iran. Photo: the author.

Fourth edition published 2023

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Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2023 Hugh Kennedy

The right of Hugh Kennedy to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

First edition published by Pearson Education Limited 1986

Third edition published by Routledge 2016

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kennedy, Hugh (Hugh N.), author.

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

Other titles: Islamic Near East from the sixth to the eleventh century | History of the Near East.

Description: Fourth edition. | Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. |

Series: A history of the Near East | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021057075 (print) | LCCN 2021057076 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Islamic EmpireHistory622661. | Islamic EmpireHistory661750. | Islamic EmpireHistory7501258.

Classification: LCC DS38.5.K38 2022 (print) | LCC DS38.5 (ebook) | DDC 956/.013dc23/eng/20211214

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021057075

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021057076

ISBN: 978-0-367-36690-2 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-367-36689-6 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-34812-9 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9780429348129

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In memory of my daughter, Susannah Louise, who died far too young.

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Preface to the first edition

This work is intended as an introduction to the history of the Near East in the early Islamic period, from the time of the Prophet to the vast upheaval caused by the arrival of the Seljuk Turks in the mid-fifth to eleventh centuries. In it, I have attempted to strike a balance between a presentation of factual material, which may seem too dry, and speculative interpretation. Some will no doubt find this approach traditional and unadventurous, but I have tried to bear in mind the needs of the reader who is approaching the history of the Near East for the first time and requires a basic framework of chronological narrative. At the same time, I have tried to avoid the impression that Islamic history is full of ephemeral rulers and pointless battles and to devote space to long-term social and economic changes and to the positive aspects of Muslim government and the immense achievements of the period, which are too often neglected in Western writing. Whether I have reached the right balance is for the reader to judge. In writing this book, I am deeply conscious of the debt I owe to many scholars who have worked on the period. I have been especially helped by the works of W.M. Watt on Muhammad and F.M. Donner and M. Morony on the Islamic conquests. The articles of G.M. Hinds on the reign of Uthma-n and the battle of Siff n are of fundamental importance. For later periods, I have been greatly helped by the work of J. Lassner and F. Omar on the Abbasid caliphate, R.M. Adams on the economic and archaeological background to the breakup of the caliphate and the works of R. Bulliet and R. Mottahedeh. Although we may disagree on some interpretations, I owe much to the teaching of M.A. Shaban. I should also draw attention to the excellent and wide-ranging studies of W. Madelung and C.E. Bosworth, both of whom have contributed greatly to our understanding of the period. It is inevitably invidious to single out individual authors, and there are many others to whom I owe much. The list of secondary sources at the end of this volume gives details of works I have found useful. I must emphasize that all the errors in this work are my own. I owe particular debts of gratitude to Professor P.M. Holt, who has edited this volume with the greatest care and saved me from numerous mistakes. I would also like to thank friends and colleagues who have encouraged me, and especially Helen and Robert Irwin for friendship and hospitality in London.

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