Hugh Kennedy

Hugh Kennedy is a British historian who specializes in the history of the early Islamic Middle East, Muslim Spain and the Crusades. He was born in 1947 in Hythe, Kent, England. Before university he spent a year studying Arabic at the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies at Shemlan in Lebanon. He then studied Arabic, Persian and history at Pembroke College, Cambridge, graduating in 1969, and completed a doctorate at Cambridge. He taught for many years at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he was professor of Middle Eastern history from 1997 to 2007, and he then became professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London. His books include The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates, a history of the early Islamic world; When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World (2004), about the Abbasid caliphs and the court of Harun al-Rashid; The Great Arab Conquests (2007), about how the armies of Islam spread from Arabia across the Middle East and North Africa; and Crusader Castles. He has also written for general readers on the caliphate.

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