Kennedy, Hugh The prophet and the age of the caliphates : the Islamic Near East from the sixth to the eleventh century / Hugh Kennedy. - London ; New York : Longman, 1986. - xii, 424 pages : genealogical tables, maps ; 23 cm. - A History of the Near East. Includes index. Bibliography: pages 389-397. ISBN: 0582493129 0582493137 Subjects--Geographic Terms: Islamic Empire--History--622-750Islamic Empire--History--750-1258 Dewey Class. No.: 909.097671