Kennedy, Hugh

Hugh Kennedy, School of Oriental and African Studies, and Fanny Bessard, Trinity College, Oxford<br />Hugh Kennedy is a historian of the Islamic Middle East between c. 600 and 1050. From 1972 to 2017, he was lecturer and then Professor in the Department of Mediaeval History in the University of St Andrews. Since 2007 he has been Professor of Arabic at SOAS University of London.