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When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World The Rise And Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty Free download à 104 Free download Ü PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook é Hugh Kennedy Read & Download When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World The Rise And Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty رن الأول الهجرى إلى خلافة الخليفة المكتفى وظهور منصب إمارة الأمراء بزعامة ابن رائق فى العام 936م 324ه. Admirable scope and detail recounting the history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its founding in the mid 700s to the Anarchy at Samarra in the late 800s and exploring not just politics but culture too in the form of court poetry and the lives of women The structure was somewhat disjointed moving back and forth in the chronology which felt strange for a supposedly narrative history and often the book summarized events rather than analyzed their larger significance Still like all of Hugh Kennedy s pop histories this one provides a good overview of a lesser known era
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When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World The Rise And Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty Free download à 104 Free download Ü PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook é Hugh Kennedy Read & Download When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World The Rise And Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty يتناول هذا الكتاب تاريخ الدولة العباسية منذ بداية الدعوة العباسية فى خرسان على يد دعاتها المخلصين. Ancient Baghdad has been lost to the modern world Cairo and Istanbul moved on while Bukhara and Isfahan stood still but the walls of the Round City were erased from earth and memory by Hulagu Khan and the Mongols in 1258 If you wish to travel to the world of the Abbasid caliphate you will need to do so in your imagination Sadly there are few recent books in English to help transport you thereHugh Kennedy is Professor of Arabic at SOAS University of London He completed his PhD in 1978 on the early Abbasid Caliphate and is ualified to provide the necessary time machine Writing many standard textbooks on the Islamic conuests Kennedy has turned to popular history In this book the narrative doesn t develop momentum and his style wavers between encyclopedia entry and medieval tabloidThe majority of the material for the period is drawn from al Tabari an Abbasid court compiler of Islamic history This is largely unavoidable as he is often the earliest or only available source Kennedy presents the chronicles in modern prose and adds his analysis of events It is not a bad premise for a popular history given the lack of accessible material but it lacks adeuate interpretationInterspersed with the narrative account are topical chapters on poetry geography architecture and court life These essays seem a bit disjointed from the main body of the work and sometimes the earlier storyline returns unexpectedly While it is possible to learn a lot from this book it could be better organized and insightful On the positive side the writing is readable and the period is important
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When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World The Rise And Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty Free download à 104 Free download Ü PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook é Hugh Kennedy Read & Download When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World The Rise And Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty أمثال بكير بن ماهان وأبى سلمة الخلال وأبى مسلم الخراسانى فى بداية القرن الثامن الميلادى نهاية الق. A number of people have commented that they found this a difficult read as the narrative jumps around rather than taking a smooth chronological flow and that sometimes information seems to be repeated I found myself agreeing at first until I got used to the style in which the historical narrative is alternated with chapters looking at aspects of Abbasid court life in which events are referenced but not necessarily explained in context until the following chapter Once I worked this out I went with the flow and really enjoyed the book as I fully expected to being a big fan of Hugh Kennedy s other worksIt has all the ingredients of a cracking read perhaps in a slightly idiosyncratic order but it does what it says on the tin The book provides a detailed narrative of the golden age of Abbasid rule from the overthrow of the Umayyads until the point in the late 9th Century at which the caliphs were reduced to figureheads by their Turkish soldiery It is a colourful account filled with incident and anecdote and extensive uotes from the contemporary sources which give a good flavour of the personalities of some of the caliphs courtiers and hangers on of the period Above all it brings home the obscene luxury and callous brutality of the caliphal court and the shear precariousness of existence Whether a prince a bureaucrat or a poet on the make the Abbasid court offered the opportunity for a meteoric rise to wealth and power and an eually meteoric plummet to torture disgrace and death when the wheel of fortune turned All of which is hugely entertaining stuff