Michael Cook (historian)

Michael Allan Cook (born in 1940) is an English-Scottish historian and scholar of Islamic history. He has co-authored a book with Patricia Crone, notably Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World.

He studied History and Oriental Studies at King's College, Cambridge 1959-1963 and did postgraduate studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London 1963-1966 under the supervision of Professor Bernard Lewis. He was lecturer in Economic History with reference to the Middle East at SOAS 1966-1984 and Reader in the History of the Near and Middle East 1984-1986. In 1986 he was appointed Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Since 2007 he has been Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in Spring 1990.^[1]

Important Prizes and Nomination

• In 2001 he was chosen to be a member of the American Philosophical Society.
• In 2002 he received the prestigious $1.5 million Distinguished Achievement Award from the Mellon Foundation for significant contribution to humanities research.^[2]
• In 2004 he was chosen to be a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[3]
• In 2006 he won Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities at Princeton.
• In 2008 he won Farabi Award in the Humanities and Islamic Studies.

Works

• A Brief History of the Human Race 2005
• Studies in the Origins of Early Islamic Culture and Tradition 2004
• Early Muslim Dogma : A Source-Critical Study 2003
• Forbidding Wrong in Islam: An Introduction (Themes in Islamic History) 2003
• Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought 2001 (Winner of the Albert Hourani Book Award)
• The Koran: A Very Short Introduction 2000
• Muhammad (Past Masters) 1983
• Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World 1977

Notes

1. ^ Michael Allan Cook Guggenheim Foundation
2. ^ 2002 Distinguished Achievement Award Recipients Mellon Foundation
3. ^ Members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Retrieved 10 February 2010

External links

• Faculty description page at Princeton University.
• In 384 pages? Cook chronicles history of the human race by Jennifer Altmann, Princeton Weekly Bulletin, June 14, 2004

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