Background
Kennedy was born on 22 October 1947 in Hythe, Kent, England.
historian university professor
Kennedy was born on 22 October 1947 in Hythe, Kent, England.
From 1966 to 1969, he studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts (Bachelor) degree in 1969. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy (Doctor of Philosophy) degree in 1978 with a doctoral thesis titled Politics and the political élite in the early Abbasid Caliphate.
From 1997 to 2007, he was Professor of Middle Eastern History at the University of Street Andrews. Since 2007, he has been Professor of Arabic School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He spent his gap year studying at the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies in Lebanon.
He had received a scholarship from the British Foreign Office.
From 1969 to 1972, he was a postgraduate student within the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge. In 1972, Kennedy joined the University of Street Andrews as a Lecturer in Mediaeval History.
He was promoted to Reader in 1990. He was appointed Professor of Middle Eastern History in 1997.
He held a number of academic administration appointments at Street Andrews: he was Deputy Head of the School of History from 1992 to 1998, and was Dean of the Faculty of Arts from 1995 to 1998.
In 2007, he left the University of Street Andrew"s to join the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. He was appointed Professor of Arabic at SOAS. From January 2015 to January 2018, he is leading a project at SOAS titled Economic integration and social change in the Islamic world system, 800-1000CE. lieutenant is being funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
British Academy; Royal Society of Edinburgh. Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.