The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates
The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates: The Islamic Near East from the 6th to the 11th Century (A History of the Near East) by Hugh Kennedy
English | 22 Jan. 2004 | ISBN: 0582405254 | 440 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
English | 22 Jan. 2004 | ISBN: 0582405254 | 440 Pages | PDF | 3 MB
Based on original Arabic sources, the new edition of this well-established text has been comprehensively revised. The book covers the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islam, through the great days of the Ummayad and Abbasid Caliphates (8th-10th centuries), to the period of political fragmentation which followed it when Islam lost its core unity, never to be recovered.