Hugh N. Kennedy

Hugh Nigel Kennedy

Early life and education

Kennedy was born on 22 October 1947 in

In 1972, Kennedy joined the University of St Andrews as a Lecturer in Mediaeval History. He was promoted to Reader in 1990.^[2] He was appointed Professor of Middle Eastern History in 1997.^[1][2] He held a number of academic administration appointments at St Andrews: he was Deputy Head of the School of History from 1992 to 1998, and was Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1995 to 1998.^[2]

In 2007, he left the University of St Andrews to join the

In 1970, Kennedy married Hilary Wybar. They have four children; one son and three daughters. One of their daughters has pre-deceased her parents.[1]

Honours

In 2000, Kennedy was elected a

• 1981, The Early Abbasid Caliphate: a Political History (
  ISBN 978-0389200185
  )
• 1986, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates, 600–1050 (London,
  ISBN 0-582-49312-9
  )
• 1990, (Editor and translator) Al-Mansur and al-Mahdi; being an annotated translation of vol. xxix of the
  ISBN 0-7914-0142-1
  )
• 1994, Crusader Castles (Cambridge,
  ISBN 0 521 42068 7
  )
• 1996, Muslim Spain and Portugal: a political history of al–Andalus (London,
  ISBN 0 582 299683
  )
• 1998, Egypt as a Province in the Islamic Caliphate, 641–868 // The Cambridge History of Egypt: Vol. 1: Islamic Egypt / edited by Carl F. Petry (Cambridge,
  ISBN 978 0 521 47137 4
• 2001, The Armies of the Caliphs: military and society in the early Islamic State (London,
  ISBN 0 415 25092 7
  )
• 2001, The Historiography of Islamic Egypt, c. 950—1800, editor (Leiden and Boston:
  ISBN 978-9-004-11794-5
  )
• 2003, Mongols, Huns and Vikings: Nomads at War (London,
  ISBN 0 304 35292 6
  )
• 2004, The Court of the Caliphs (London,
  ISBN 0 297 83000 7
  )
• 2006, The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East (
  ISBN 0 754 65909 7
  )
• 2004, Revised ed. of Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates, 600–1050 (Harlow,
  ISBN 0 582 40525 4
  )
• 2005, When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty (Cambridge, MA,
  ISBN 0 306 81435 8
  )
• 2007, The Great Arab Conquests. How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In. (London,
  ISBN 0 297 84657 4
  )
• 2008, The Muslims in Europe //
  ISBN 978-0-521-36292-4
• 2010, The Late ʿAbbasid Pattern, 945–1050 //
  ISBN 978 0 521 83823 8
• 2013, Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East (London,
  ISBN 0 857 73437 7
• 2013, Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court, with Maaike van Berkel, Nadia Maria El Cheikh and Letizia Osti (Leiden,
  ISBN 978 90 04 25271 4
• 2016, Caliphate: The History of an Idea. (New York,
  ISBN 978 0 465 09439 4
• 2016, The Caliphate: A Pelican Introduction. (London,
  ISBN 978-0141981406
  )
• 2020, The Rise and Fall of the Early ʿAbbāsid Political and Military Elite // Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire (Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East, vol. 36) / edited by Hannah-Lena Hagemann,
  ISBN 978 3 110 66656 4
• 2022, (Editor and translator)
  ISBN 978-0-755-63743-0
  )
• 2023, Land and Trade in Early Islam: The Economy of the Islamic Middle East 750-1050 CE, editor with Fanny Bessard (
  ISBN 978-0-198-86308-3