The Court Of The Caliphs: The Rise And Fall Of Islam's Greatest Dynasty by Hugh Kennedy

The Court Of The Caliphs: The Rise And Fall Of Islam's Greatest Dynasty

Hugh Kennedy

326 pages first pub 2004 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative slow-paced
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Professor Hugh Kennedy makes no apology for the 'fair share of booze and sex' involved in The Court of the Caliphs. Every element of his story is drawn from the original Arabic texts: 'the writers of the ninth and tenth centuries knew their rulers...

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