The Caliphate - Hugh Kennedy
The Caliphate - Hugh Kennedy What is a caliphate? 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…
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The Caliphate - Hugh Kennedy
What is a caliphate? 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. What is the history of the idea?
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. At its height, the caliphate stretched from Spain to the borders of China and was the most powerful political entity in western Eurasia. 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.
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