Professor Hugh N Kennedy
PhD (Cantab)
Overview
Department of the Languages and Cultures of Near and Middle East
Professor of Arabic
Centre for Iranian Studies
Member
London Middle East Institute (LMEI)
Member
- Name:
- Professor Hugh N Kennedy
- Email address:
- hk1@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 020 7898 4251
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 436
- Office Hours:
- Mondays 14:00-15:00 / Thursdays 11:30-12:30
Teaching
Courses Taught
- Reading Classical Arabic Historians: Themes and Trends in Islamic Historiography
- Reading Classical Arabic historians
- The Muslim World: Unity in Diversity
PhD Students supervised
- Abdur-Rahman Mangera, A Critical Edition of Abū l-Layth al-Samarqandī’s Nawāzil
- Onees Lodhi, Migration (Hijra) and Travel in Early Islam
- Peter Webb, The Pre-Islamic Past: The 'Idea' of History and Historical Reconstruction
Publications
Authored Books
Kennedy, Hugh (2013) Warfare and poetry in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris. (In Press)
Kennedy, Hugh (2007) The Great Arab Conquests. How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
Kennedy, Hugh (2005) The Court of the Caliphs: When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World. London: Phoenix.
Kennedy, Hugh (2001) The Armies of the Caliphs. Military and Society in the Early Islamic State. Routledge.
Edited Books
Kennedy, Hugh, ed. (2005) Muslim military architecture in greater Syria: from the coming of Islam to the Ottoman Period. Leiden; Boston: Brill.
Book Chapters
Kennedy, Hugh (2012) 'Journey to Mecca: A History.' In: Porter, V., (ed.), Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam. London: British Museum Press, pp. 68-132.
Kennedy, Hugh (2011) 'Shayzar: overview of its history.' In: Tonghini, C., (ed.), Shayzar I: The Fortification of the Citadel. Leiden: Brill, pp. 2-25.
Kennedy, Hugh (2011) 'The Ribat in the Early Islamic World.' In: Day, H. and Fentress, E., (eds.), Western Monasticism Ante Litteram. Tournhout: Brepols, pp. 161-175.
Kennedy, Hugh (2011) 'Great estates and elite lifestyles in the Fertile Crescent from Byzantium and Sasanian Iran to Islam.' In: Fuess, A and Hartung, J-P, (eds.), Court Cultures of the Muslim World. London: Routledge, pp. 54-79.
Kennedy, Hugh (2010) 'Syrian Elites from Byzantium to Islam: Survival or Extinction?' In: Haldon, J., (ed.), Money, Power and Politics in early Islamic Syria. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 181-198.
Kennedy, Hugh (2010) 'How to found an Islamic city.' In: Goodson, C. and Lester, A. E. and Symes, C., (eds.), Cities, Texts and Social Networks 400-1500. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 45-63.
Kennedy, Hugh (2010) 'The Coming of Islam to Bukhara.' In: Suleiman, Y., (ed.), Living Islamic History: Studies in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 77-91.
Kennedy, Hugh (2009) 'Survival of Iranianness.' In: Curtis, V. S. and Stewart, S., (eds.), The Rise of Islam. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 13-29.
Kennedy, Hugh (2008) 'Inherited Cities.' In: Jayyusi, S. K., (ed.), The City in the Islamic World. Leiden: Brill, pp. 93-114.
Kennedy, Hugh (2007) 'Justinianic Plague in Syria and the Archaeological Evidence.' In: Little, L., (ed.), Plague and the End of Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 87-95.
Articles
Kennedy, Hugh (2011) 'The feeding of the five hundred thousand: cities and agriculture in early Islamic Mesopotamia.' Iraq, 73 . pp. 177-199.
Kennedy, Hugh (2002) 'Military Pay and the Economy of the Early Islamic State.' Historical Research, 75 (188). pp. 155-169.
Other
Kennedy, Hugh (2010) 'The City and the Nomad.' In: The New Cambridge History of Islam Volume 4: Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. pp. 290-305.
Kennedy, Hugh (2010) 'The late Abbasid Pattern.' In: The New Cambridge History of Islam Volume 1: The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries. Cambridge University Press. pp. 360-393.
Kennedy, Hugh (2008) 'The Mediterranean Frontier: Christianity face to face with Islam, 600–1050.' In: Cambridge History of Christianity. Cambridge University Press. pp. 178-196.
