Michael Cook (historian)

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Michael Cook is an English historian and scholar of Islamic history. He has co-authored a number of books with Patricia Crone, notably Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World.

He was educated at Cambridge and the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. In 1986 he took up a position at Princeton University. In 2002 he received the prestigious $1.5 million Distinguished Achievement Award from the Mellon Foundation for significant contribution to humanities research.

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• 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
• The Koran: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) 2000
• Founders of Faith : The Buddha ; Confucius ; Jesus ; Muhammad
• Muhammad (Past Masters)
• Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World