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The caliphate : a Pelican introduction / Hugh Kennedy.
- Title
- The caliphate : a Pelican introduction / Hugh Kennedy.
- Author
- Kennedy, Hugh (Hugh N.)
- Publication
- [London] : Pelican, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2016.
- ©2016
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| Text | Request in advance | BP166.9 .K43 2016 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xxv, 412 pages : maps; 18 cm
- Summary
- What is a caliphate? What is the history of the idea? How is the term used and abused today? In the first modern account of a subject of critical importance today, acclaimed historian Hugh Kennedy answers these questions by chronicling the rich history of the caliphate, from the death of Muhammad to the present. At its height, the caliphate stretched from Spain to the borders of China and was the most powerful political entity in western Eurasia. In an era when Paris and London boasted a few thousand inhabitants, Baghdad and Cairo were sophisticated centres of trade and culture, and the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates were distinguished by major advances in science, medicine and architecture. By ending with the recent re-emergence of caliphal ideology within fundamentalist Islam, The Caliphate underscores why it is crucial that we know about this form of Islamic government to understand the political ideas of the so-called Islamic State and other Islamist groups in the twenty first century -- by the publisher.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Maps -- The first caliphs -- The executive caliphate -- The early Abbasid caliphate -- The culture of the Abbasid caliphate -- The later Abbasid caliphate -- Three authors in search of the caliphate -- The caliphate of the shi'ites -- The Umayyads of Córdoba -- The Almohad caliphs -- The caliphate under the mamluks and ottomans -- The twentieth century and beyond.
- ISBN
- 9780141981406
- 0141981407
- OCLC
- 953852670
- SCSB-11155955
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library