A dozen studies focus on the emergence of Islamic civilization between the seventh and ninth centuries. Cook (Princeton U.) considers such aspects as pharaonic history in medieval Egypt, the archaic p
Michael Cook's classic study, Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought (Cambridge, 2001), reflected upon the Islamic injunction to forbid wrongdoing. This book is a short, accessible s
The Koran has constituted a remarkably resilient core of identity and continuity for a religious tradition that is now in its fifteenth century. In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Cook provides
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 inspir
