Land and Trade in Early Islam: The Economy of the Islamic Middle East 750-1050 CE

ISBN-13: 9780198863083 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 576 str.

Hugh Kennedy; Fanny Bessard

O autorze

Hugh Kennedy is a historian of the Islamic Middle East between c. 600 and 1050. From 1972 to 2017, he was lecturer and then Professor in the Department of Mediaeval History in the University of St Andrews. Since 2007 he has been Professor of Arabic at SOAS University of London. He is the author of numerous books and articles including most recently The Caliphate: A Pelican Introduction (Penguin, 2016). Fanny Bessard is a historian of early and classical Islam with expertise in Arabic historiography, as well as a practicing archaeologist with a decade of field experience in the Middle East and Central Asia. Before joining the University of Oxford, she held a Newton fellowship at SOAS (2013-15), a Leverhulme ECF at the University of St Andrews (2015-16), and a Lecturership in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Bristol (2016-19). Her main research interest lies in the social and economic transformations of the Middle East, 700-1000.