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About Hugh Kennedy
See more books from this Author(Arab history knows him as “Abu’l-dawaniq, the father of pennies, because he counted them all.”) Yet Mansur was also “a political operator of genius” who had a knack for playing enemies off one another and for surviving intrigue;
| Read Full Review of When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim...Firmly grounded in the original Arabic literary sources of the era, Kennedy (Mongols, Huns and Vikings ) emphasizes the amazing personalities of the period, such as Caliph Harun al-Rashid (mythologized in The Arabian Nights ) and his powerful queen Zubayda.
May 02 2005 | Read Full Review of When Baghdad Ruled the Muslim...An aggregated and normalized score based on 21 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes