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.
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ISBN
9781000605600
Publisert
2022
Utgave
4. utgave
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Routledge
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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