Hugh N. Kennedy

Hugh N. Kennedy , often also Hugh Kennedy (born October 22, 1947 ), is Professor of Arabic Studies at the Faculty of Languages ​​and Cultures at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London .

In 1972 he was appointed to the University of St Andrews , where he taught history. His main field became the history of the Islamic Middle East and the Iberian Peninsula, as well as Islamic archeology. His focus was on the early Middle Ages .

In 1981 he dealt with the early Abbasids and in 1986 provided an overview of the time between Mohammed and 1050, which was published in a revised form in 2004. In 1990 he contributed to a large-scale English project for the translation of the Annals of al-Tabari . In 1994 he published on the castles of the crusaders , from 1996 on Muslim Iberia . In 2007 he published an overview of the early Islamic expansion . In addition, he repeatedly dealt with other nomadic conquerors, such as the Mongols or the Huns .

Works (selection)

• The Early Abbasid Caliphate. A Political History , Barnes and Noble, London, New York 1981.
• The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates, 600–1050 , Longman, London 1986, revised edition 2004, 3rd edition 2016.
• Crusader Castles , Cambridge University Press 1994, revised edition 2001.
• Muslim Spain and Portugal. A Political History of al – Andalus , Longman, London 1996. (Spanish under the title Os muçulmanos na Península Ibérica: história política do al-Andalus ) 1999.
• with Georgina Herrman: Monuments of Merv. Traditional Buildings of the Karakum , Society of Antiquaries of London, 1999.
• The Armies of the Caliphs. Military and Society in the Early Islamic State , Routledge, London 2001 (ital. 2010).
• Mongols, Huns and Vikings. Nomads at War , Cassell, London 2003.
• The Court of the Caliphs , London 2004 (span. 2008).
• The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East , Ashgate Publishing, Farnham 2006.
• When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World. The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty , Da Capo Press, Cambridge 2005.
• The Great Arab Conquests. How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live in , London 2007.
• Justinianic Plague in Syria and the Archaeological Evidence , in: L. Little (Ed.): Plague and the End of Antiquity , Cambridge University Press 2007, pp. 87-95.
• The Mediterranean Frontier: Christianity face to face with Islam, 600-1050 , in: Cambridge History of Christianity , Cambridge University Press 2008, pp. 178-196.
• The City and the Nomad , in: The New Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 4: Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century , Cambridge University Press 2010, pp. 290-305.
• Syrian Elites from Byzantium to Islam: Survival or Extinction? , in: J.Haldon (Ed.), Money, Power and Politics in early Islamic Syria , Ashgate, Aldershot 2010, pp. 181–198.

Remarks

1. ^ Professor Hugh N Kennedy , website of the Department of the Languages ​​and Cultures of the Near and Middle East, University of London.
2. ^ The History of al-Tabari: An Annotated Translation, Volume 29: Al-Mansur and Al-Mahdi, AD 763-786; AH 146-169 .