Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates - 4th Edition

Name: Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates - 4th Edition
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The Prophet and the Age of the CaliphatesThe Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century\nAuthor(s): Hugh Kennedy\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367366902, 978-0367366902\nSynopsis\nThe Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from [url] to 1050 AD, the period in which Islamic society was formed. \n\nBeginning 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..