Professor of Arabic Hugh Kennedy

Hugh N. Kennedy

1. The Conquest and the Age of the Amirs, 711-56 -- 2. The Umayyad Amirate, 756-852 -- 3. Muhammad, al-Mundhir and 'Abd Allah: the Slide into Anarchy, 852-912 -- 4. The Golden Age of the Umayyad Caliphate, 912-76 -- 5. The 'Amirids and the Collapse of the Caliphate of Cordoba -- 6. The Taifa Kingdoms -- 7. The Empire of the Almoravids -- 8. The Second Taifas -- 9. The Early Almohad Caliphate -- 10. The Later Almohad Caliphate -- 11. The Nasrids of Granada -- Farewell to al-Andalus -- App. 1. Governors of al-Andalus and Taifa Kings -- App. 2. Family Trees of the Ruling Dynasties of al-Andalus.

A Political History of Al-Andalus

Muslim Spain and Portugal

Hugh Kennedy

Examines the history of the great Islamic expansion, reveals how the Arab armies were able to overcome almost everything in their path, and brings to light the unique characteristics of Islamic settlement in new lands and the conversion to Islam of vast populations.

How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In

The Great Arab Conquests

A Political History

The Early Abbasid Caliphate

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.

The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century

The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates

Presents a history of the Abbasid dynasty, the founders of Baghdad, and discusses the politics, military conquests, court life, palace bureacracy, culture, and arts which characterized the era.

Professor of Arabic Hugh Kennedy

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