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词条 Hugh N. Kennedy
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  1. Early life

  2. Academic career

  3. Personal life

  4. Honours

  5. Bibliography

  6. References

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Hugh Nigel Kennedy, FRSE, FRAS, FBA (born 22 October 1947) is a British medieval historian and academic. He specialises in the history of the early Islamic Middle East, Muslim Spain and the Crusades. From 1997 to 2007, he was Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of St Andrews. Since 2007, he has been Professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London.

Early life

Kennedy was born on 22 October 1947 in Hythe, Kent, England.[1] He spent a year 1965-6 studying at the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies at Shemlan in Lebanon; he had received a scholarship from the British Foreign Office.[2] From 1966 to 1969, he studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge.[1][2] He studied Arabic and Persian for Part 1 of the Tripos (achieving a 1), and history for Part II (achieving a first).[2] He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1969.[1] From 1969 to 1972, he was a postgraduate student within the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge.[2] He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1978 with a doctoral thesis titled Politics and the political élite in the early Abbasid Caliphate.[3]

Academic career

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 Andrew's to join the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.[1] He was appointed Professor of Arabic at SOAS.[2] From January 2015 to January 2018, he is leading a project at SOAS titled Economic integration and social change in the Islamic world system, 800-1000CE; it is being funded by the Leverhulme Trust.[4]

Among his research topics is the History of the Islamic Middle East, Islamic Archaeology and Muslim Spain.[5]

Personal life

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

Honours

In 2000, Kennedy was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE).[2][6] In July 2012, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[7][8] He is also a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (FRAS).[2]

Bibliography

  • 1981, The Early Abbasid Caliphate; a Political History (Barnes and Noble, London and New York). ({{ISBN|978-0389200185}})
  • 1986, The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates, 600–1050 (London, Longman) ({{ISBN|0-582-49312-9}})
  • 1990, Al-Mansur and al-Mahdi; being an annotated translation of vol. xxix of the History of al-Tabari (Albany, State University of New York Press) ({{ISBN|0-7914-0142-1}})
  • 1994, Crusader Castles (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press) ({{ISBN|0 521 42068 7}})
  • 1996, Muslim Spain and Portugal: a political history of al–Andalus (London, Longman) ({{ISBN|0 582 299683}})
  • 2001, The Armies of the Caliphs: military and society in the early Islamic State (London, Routledge) ({{ISBN|0 415 25092 7}})
  • 2001, Revised ed. of Crusader Castles (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press) ({{ISBN|0 521 79913 9}})
  • 2003, Mongols, Huns and Vikings: Nomads at War (London, Cassell) ({{ISBN|0 304 35292 6}})
  • 2004, The Court of the Caliphs (London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson) ({{ISBN|0 297 83000 7}})
  • 2006, The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East (Variorum Collected Studies Series) (Farnham, Ashgate Publishing Limited) ({{ISBN|0 754 65909 7}})
  • 2004, Revised ed. of Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates, 600–1050. (London, Longman) ({{ISBN|0 582 40525 4}})
  • 2005, When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World: The Rise and Fall of Islam's Greatest Dynasty (Cambridge, MA, Da Capo Press) ({{ISBN|0 306 81435 8}})
  • 2007, The Great Arab Conquests. How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In. (London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson) ({{ISBN|0 297 84657 4}})
  • 2016, The Caliphate: A Pelican Introduction. (London, Penguin) ({{ISBN|978-0141981406}})

References

1. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{cite web|title=KENNEDY, Prof. Hugh Nigel|url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U256694|website=Who's Who 2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|accessdate=22 October 2015|date=November 2014}}
2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 {{cite web|title=Prof. Hugh N. Kennedy - CURRICULUM VITAE|url=http://mpd.ibi.uw.edu.pl/cv/KennedyCV.pdf|website=School of Oriental and African Studies|accessdate=22 October 2015}}
3. ^{{cite web|last1=Kennedy|first1=Hugh Nigel|title=Politics and the political élite in the early Abbasid Caliphate|url=http://hooke.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/bib_seek.cgi?cat=man&bib=10324|website=Newton Library Catalogue|publisher=University of Cambridge|accessdate=22 October 2015|date=1978}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Economic integration and social change in the Islamic world system, 800-1000CE|url=https://www.soas.ac.uk/nme/research/islamic-world-system-800-1000ce/|website=School of Oriental and African Studies|accessdate=22 October 2015}}
5. ^Professor Hugh N Kennedy | Staff | SOAS, University of London
6. ^{{cite web|title=Directory 2013/14|url=https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/cms/files/publications/directory/directory_nolist.pdf|website=Royal Society of Edinburgh|accessdate=22 October 2015|page=150|format=pdf}}
7. ^{{cite web|title=Fellows elected July 2012|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/2012.cfm|website=British Academy|accessdate=22 October 2015|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160203144607/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/elections/2012.cfm|archivedate=3 February 2016|df=dmy-all}}
8. ^{{cite web|title=KENNEDY, Professor Hugh|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/ord.cfm?member=19129|website=British Academy Fellows|publisher=British Academy|accessdate=22 October 2015|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074857/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/ord.cfm?member=19129|archivedate=4 March 2016|df=dmy-all}}
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11 : 1947 births|Living people|People from Hythe, Kent|Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge|Historians of the Crusades|British scholars of Islam|Academics of the University of St Andrews|Academics of SOAS, University of London|Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh|Fellows of the British Academy|Fellows of the Royal Asiatic Society
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