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609-258-5360. Email. mcook@princeton.edu. Office. 101A Jones Hall. Area (s): Islamic history. Islamic thought. I was educated at Cambridge (the real Cambridge, not the one in Massachusetts); I spent two years there studying English and European history, and two learning Turkish and Persian.
Michael Cook is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His books include Ancient Religions, Modern Politics: The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective (Princeton), A Brief History of the Human Race , and The Koran: A Very Short Introduction .
Michael Allan Cook FBA (born 1940) is a British historian and scholar of Islamic history. Cook is the general editor of The New Cambridge History of Islam.
May 7, 2024 · Michael Cook thus provides a broad history of a civilization remarkable for both its unity and diversity. After setting the scene in the Middle East of late antiquity, the book depicts the rise of Islam as one of the great black swan events of history.
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Oct 9, 2020 · Michael Cook, the Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies, has been awarded the 2020 Middle East Medievalists Lifetime Achievement Award.
Apr 3, 2024 · Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies Michael Cook has published A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origin to the Dawn of Modernity.
Michael Cook is one of today’s leading experts on the history and religious thought of Islam. He has reshaped fields that span Ottoman studies, the genesis of early Islamic polity, the history of the Wahhabiyya movement, and Islamic law, ethics, and theology.
Michael Cook is one of today’s leading experts on the history and religious thought of Islam. He has reshaped fields that span Ottoman studies, the genesis of early Islamic polity, the history of the Wahhabiyya movement, and Islamic law, ethics, and theology.
Just over a sixth of the world's population subscribes to the Muslim belief that `there is no god but God, and Muhammad is his Messenger'. Michael Cook gives an incisive account of the man who...
