Cover image: “A street in old Yazd, Iran.” Photo: the author.
Fourth edition published 2023
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First edition published by Pearson Education Limited 1986
Third edition published by Routledge 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kennedy, Hugh (Hugh N.), author.
Title: The prophet and the age of the Caliphates: the Islamic Near East from the sixth to the eleventh century / Hugh Kennedy.
Other titles: Islamic Near East from the sixth to the eleventh century | History of the Near East.
Description: Fourth edition. | Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2022. |
Series: A history of the Near East | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021057075 (print) | LCCN 2021057076 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Islamic Empire—History—622–661. | Islamic Empire—History—661–750. | Islamic Empire—History—750–1258.
Classification: LCC DS38.5.K38 2022 (print) | LCC DS38.5 (ebook) | DDC 956/.013—dc23/eng/20211214
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021057075
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021057076
ISBN: 978-0-367-36690-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-367-36689-6 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-429-34812-9 (ebk)
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