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
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
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Authored Books
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.
Articles
Kennedy, Hugh (2002) 'Military Pay and the Economy of the Early Islamic State.' Historical Research, 75 (188). pp. 155-169.
