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Kennedy, Hugh (2016) The Caliphate: A Pelican Introduction. London: Penguin.
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.. Abingdon: Routledge.
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.
Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.), (2013) Warfare and poetry in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris.
Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.), (2005) Muslim military architecture in greater Syria: from the coming of Islam to the Ottoman Period. Leiden; Boston: Brill.
Kennedy, Hugh (2020) 'The Rise and Fall of the early ʿAbbasid Political and Military Elite'. In: Hagemann, Hannah-Lena and Heidemann, Stefan, (eds.), Transregional and Regional Elites - Connecting the Early Islamic Empire. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp 100-113.
Kennedy, Hugh (2018) 'From Polis to Madina: some reflections thirty years on'. In: Panzram, Sabine and Callegarin, Laurent, (eds.), Entre Civitas y Madina : el mundo de las ciudades en la Península ibérica y en el Norte de África (siglos IV-IX). Madrid: Casa de Velazquez, pp 13-22.
Kennedy, Hugh (2018) 'Frontiers of Islam: an essay on the Varieties of Frontier Interactions'. Southern Italy as a Contact Area and Border Region during the Early Middle Ages : Religious-cultural heterogeneity and competing powers in local, transregional, and universal dimensions. Koeln: Boehlau, pp 51-64.
Kennedy, Hugh (2018) 'Muʾnis al-Muẓaffar: An exceptional eunuch'. In: Höfert, Almut and Mesley, Matthew M. and Tolino, Serena, (eds.), Celibate and Childless Men in Power Ruling Eunuchs and Bishops in the Pre-Modern World. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp 79-91.
Kennedy, Hugh (2017) 'The Origins of the Aghlabids'. In: Anderson, Glaire D. and Fenwick, Corisande and Rosser-Owen, Mariam, (eds.), The aghlabids and their Neighbors. Leiden: Brill, pp 33-48.
Kennedy, Hugh (2017) 'Baghdad as a Center of Learning and Book Production'. In: Blair, Sheila and Bloom, Jonathan, (eds.), By the Pen and What They Write: Writing in Islamic Art and Culture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, pp 91-103.
Kennedy, Hugh (2016) 'Landed Property and Government Finance in the Early Abbasid Caliphate'. In: Hudson, John and Crumplin, Sally, (eds.), "The Making of Europe" Essays in Honour of Robert Bartlett. Leiden: Brill, pp 264-276.
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) 'The Coming of Islam to Bukhara'. In: Suleiman, Y., (ed.), Living Islamic History: Studies in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp 77-91.
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 (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.
Kennedy, Hugh (2010) 'The City and the Nomad'.
Kennedy, Hugh (2010) 'The late Abbasid Pattern'.
Kennedy, Hugh (2008) 'The Mediterranean Frontier: Christianity face to face with Islam, 600–1050'.
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