Michael A Cook

Biographic Data

ID9303994
NAMEMichael A Cook
GIVEN NAMESMichael A
FAMILY NAMECook
SIGNATURECOOK M A
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR8
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • A History of the Muslim World

    Michael Cook, Michael A CookBOOKHistory of the Muslim World2024

  • History of the Muslim World

    Michael A CookBOOKHistory of the Muslim World2024

  • Studies in the Origins of Early Islamic Culture and Tradition

    Michael A Cook, Michael CookBOOKStudies in the Origins of Early…2022

  • Locating the Qurʾan and Early Islam in the ‘Epistemic Space’ of Late Antiquity

    Angelika Neuwirth, Carol Bakhos et al.BOOKIslam and its Past2017

    Locating the qur’anic event in Late Antiquity, understood not as a historical epoch but an epistemic space, the chapter focuses on textual strategies rather than on the transfer of semantic knowledge or extra-textual circumstances. Qurʾanic speech oscillates between literal and ‘allegorical’ expression. Among the last mentioned, typology, hitherto widely neglected—although perhaps the most representative textual practice in the late antique cultu…

  • Ancient Religions, Modern Politics

    Michael Cook, Michael A CookBOOKAncient Religions, Modern Politics2014

    Why does Islam play a larger role in contemporary politics than other religions? Is there something about the Islamic heritage that makes Muslims more likely than adherents of other faiths to invoke it in their political life? If so, what is it? Ancient Religions, Modern Politics seeks to answer these questions by examining the roles of Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity in modern political life, placing special emphasis on the relevance—or irrele…

  • Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought

    Open AccessMichael A Cook, Michael Cook et al.BOOKLaw and Tradition in Classical…2013

    Bringing together essays on topics related to Islamic law, this book is composed of articles by prominent legal scholars and historians of Islam. They exemplify a critical development in the field of

  • Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought

    Michael A Cook, Michael B Cook et al.BOOKCommanding Right and Forbidding…2009

  • Forbidding Wrong in Islam

    Open AccessMichael Cook, Michael A Cook et al.BOOKForbidding Wrong in Islam2003

    Michael Cook's magisterial study in Islamic ethics, Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought, was published to much acclaim in 2001. It was described by one reviewer as a masterpiece. In that book, the author reflected on the Islamic injunction, incumbent on every Muslim, to forbid wrongdoing. The present book is a short, accessible survey of the same material. Using anecdotes and stories from Islamic sources to illustrate the arg…