Hugh Kennedy
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LOCATION: St. Andrews, United Kingdom
Reader in Mediaeval History, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Author of The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates.
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Iraq, country of southwestern Asia. During ancient times, lands that now constitute Iraq were known as Mesopotamia (“Land Between the Rivers”), a region whose extensive alluvial plains gave rise to some of the world’s earliest civilizations, including those of Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria.…
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