TY  - BOOK
AU  - KENNEDY Hugh
TI  - The armies of the Caliphs: military and society in the early Islamic state 
SN  - 0415250927 (hbk) :
PY  - 2001///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - MIDDLE EAST
KW  - MEDIEVAL WARFARE
KW  - ISLAMIC STATES
KW  - ARMED FORCES
N2  - Histroy of the evolution and development of the armed forces of the early period of the Islamic world which shows how these forces, that depended on the state for their existence, came to dominate the political system
ER  -