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When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World

When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim World

by Hugh Kennedy

  • HISTORY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 326 PAGES

Kennedy evokes the culture, politics and key figures of Mesopotamia and the Abbasid court in rich detail, capturing a time when Baghdad (during the in the 8th and 9th centuries) was at the center of an empire that extended from Morocco to Central Asia.  (MDE85, $19.95)


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