SOAS Research Online

Kennedy, Hugh (2024) 'The Evolution of the Term Sulṭān in Early Islam.' Journal of Abbasid Studies, 11 (1). pp. 1-17.

Kennedy, Hugh (2023) 'Review of: Hannah-Lena Hagemann: The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 25 (1). pp. 112-114.

Kennedy, Hugh (2022) History of the Arab Invasions: The Conquest of the Lands: A New Translation of al-Baladhuri's Futuh al-Buldan. London: Bloomsbury.

Kennedy, Hugh (2022) 'Review of: Ahmed El Shamsy, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition.' Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 24 (2). pp. 87-90.

Kennedy, Hugh (2021) 'The Emergence of New Polities in the Breakup of the Abbasid Caliphate.' In: Pohl, Walter, (ed.), Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, C. 400-1000 CE. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford Studies in Early Empires)

Kennedy, Hugh (2020) 'The Rise and Fall of the early ʿAbbasid Political and Military Elite.' In: Hagemann, Hannah-Lena and Heidemann, Stefan, (eds.), Transregional and Regional Elites - Connecting the Early Islamic Empire. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 100-113. (Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East)

Kennedy, Hugh (2018) 'From Polis to Madina: some reflections thirty years on.' In: Panzram, Sabine and Callegarin, Laurent, (eds.), Entre Civitas y Madina : el mundo de las ciudades en la Península ibérica y en el Norte de África (siglos IV-IX). Madrid: Casa de Velazquez, pp. 13-22. (Collection de la Casa de Velázquez, 1132-7340 ; volume 167)

Kennedy, Hugh (2018) 'Frontiers of Islam: an essay on the Varieties of Frontier Interactions.' In: Wolf, Kordula and Herbers, Klaus, (eds.), Southern Italy as a Contact Area and Border Region during the Early Middle Ages : Religious-cultural heterogeneity and competing powers in local, transregional, and universal dimensions. Koeln: Böhlau, pp. 51-64. (Beihefte zum Archiv für Kulturgeschichte v 80)

Kennedy, Hugh (2018) 'Muʾnis al-Muẓaffar: An exceptional eunuch.' In: Höfert, Almut, Mesley, Matthew M. and Tolino, Serena, (eds.), Celibate and Childless Men in Power Ruling Eunuchs and Bishops in the Pre-Modern World. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp. 79-91.

Kennedy, Hugh (2017) 'The Origins of the Aghlabids.' In: Anderson, Glaire D., Fenwick, Corisande and Rosser-Owen, Mariam, (eds.), The aghlabids and their Neighbors. Leiden: Brill, pp. 33-48. (Handbook of Oriental Studies)

Kennedy, Hugh (2017) 'Baghdad as a Center of Learning and Book Production.' In: Blair, Sheila and Bloom, Jonathan, (eds.), By the Pen and What They Write: Writing in Islamic Art and Culture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, pp. 91-103.

Kennedy, Hugh (2016) The Caliphate: A Pelican Introduction. London: Penguin.

Kennedy, Hugh (2016) 'Landed Property and Government Finance in the Early Abbasid Caliphate.' In: Hudson, John and Crumplin, Sally, (eds.), "The Making of Europe" Essays in Honour of Robert Bartlett. Leiden: Brill, pp. 264-276.

Webb, Peter (2013) 'Poetry and the Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Poetry and narratives of the Battle of Ṣiffīn.' In: Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.), Poetry and Warfare in Middle Eastern Literatures. London: IB Tauris, pp. 119-144.

Ouyang, Wen-Chin (2013) 'Silenced Cultural Encounters in Poetry of War.' In: Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.), Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East. London; New York: I. B. Tauris, pp. 167-192.

Alshaer, Atef (2013) 'Humanism, Nationalism and Violence in Mahmoud Darwish’s Poetry.' In: Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.), Warefare and Poetry in the Middle East. London: I.B Tauris, pp. 257-283.

Kennedy, Hugh, ed. (2013) Warfare and poetry in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris.

Hammond, Marle (2013) ''If only al-Barraq could see': Violence and Voyeurism in an Early Modern Reformulation of the Pre-Islamic Call to Arms.' In: Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.), Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 215-240.

Sperl, Stefan (2013) '"O City Set Up Thy Lament" - Poetic Responses to the Trauma of War.' In: Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.), War and Poetry in the Middle East. London: I.B. Taurus, pp. 1-37.

George, Andrew (2013) 'The Poem of Erra and Ishum: A Babylonian poet’s view of war.' In: Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.), Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East. London: I.B.Tauris, pp. 39-71.

Weeden, Mark (2013) 'Poetry and War among the Hittites.' In: Kennedy, Hugh, (ed.), Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 73-98.

Kennedy, Hugh (2012) 'Journey to Mecca: A History.' In: Porter, Venetia, (ed.), Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam. London: British Museum Press, pp. 68-132.

Kennedy, Hugh (2011) 'The Feeding of the five Hundred Thousand: Cities and Agriculture in Early Islamic Mesopotamia.' Iraq, 73. pp. 177-199.

Kennedy, Hugh (2011) 'Great estates and elite lifestyles in the Fertile Crescent from Byzantium and Sasanian Iran to Islam.' In: Fuess, Albrecht and Hartung, Jan-Peter, (eds.), Court Cultures of the Muslim World. London: Routledge, pp. 54-79. (SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East)

Kennedy, Hugh (2011) 'The Ribat in the Early Islamic World.' In: Day, H. and Fentress, E., (eds.), Western Monasticism Ante Litteram. Tournhout: Brepols, pp. 161-175.

Kennedy, Hugh (2011) 'Shayzar: overview of its history.' In: Tonghini, C., (ed.), Shayzar I: The Fortification of the Citadel. Leiden: Brill, pp. 2-25.

Kennedy, Hugh (2010) 'The Coming of Islam to Bukhara.' In: Suleiman, Yasir, (ed.), Living Islamic History: Studies in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 77-91.

Kennedy, Hugh (2010) 'The City and the Nomad.' In: The New Cambridge History of Islam Volume 4: Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge University Press. pp. 290-305.

Kennedy, Hugh (2010) 'How to found an Islamic city.' In: Goodson, C., Lester, A. E. and Symes, C., (eds.), Cities, Texts and Social Networks 400-1500. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 45-63.

Kennedy, Hugh (2010) 'Syrian Elites from Byzantium to Islam: Survival or Extinction?' In: Haldon, John, (ed.), Money, Power and Politics in early Islamic Syria. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 181-198.

Kennedy, Hugh (2010) 'The late ʿAbbāsid pattern, 945–1050.' In: The New Cambridge History of Islam Volume 1: The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries. Cambridge University Press. pp. 360-393.

Kennedy, Hugh (2009) 'Survival of Iranianness.' In: Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh and Stewart, Sarah, (eds.), The Rise of Islam. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 13-29.

Kennedy, Hugh (2008) 'Inherited Cities.' In: Jayyusi, Salma K., (ed.), The City in the Islamic World. Leiden: Brill, pp. 93-114.

Kennedy, Hugh (2008) 'The Mediterranean Frontier: Christianity face to face with Islam, 600–1050.' In: Cambridge History of Christianity. Cambridge University Press. pp. 178-196.

Kennedy, Hugh (2007) The Great Arab Conquests. How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.

Kennedy, Hugh (2007) 'Justinianic Plague in Syria and the Archaeological Evidence.' In: Little, Lester K., (ed.), Plague and the End of Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 87-95.

Kennedy, Hugh (2005) The Court of the Caliphs: When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World. London: Phoenix.

Kennedy, Hugh, ed. (2005) Muslim military architecture in greater Syria: from the coming of Islam to the Ottoman Period. Leiden; Boston: Brill.

Kennedy, Hugh (2002) 'Military Pay and the Economy of the Early Islamic State.' Historical Research, 75 (188). pp. 155-169.

Kennedy, Hugh (2001) The Armies of the Caliphs. Military and Society in the Early Islamic State. Abingdon: Routledge.