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Michael Cook
Researcher at Princeton University
Publications - 74
Citations - 1755
Michael Cook is an academic researcher from Princeton University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Islam & Islamic studies. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 74 publications receiving 1712 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Cook include University of Liverpool.
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Hagarism. The Making of the Islamic World
Patricia Crone,Michael Cook +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors pointed out the intimate link between the Jewish religion and the earliest forms of Islam and published a paperback edition of their book, which made the authors' conclusions widely accessible to teachers and students of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
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Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the first sustained attempt to map the history of Islamic reflection on the obligation to stop other people from doing wrong in the Qur'an and its application to contemporary Islamic politics and ideology.
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Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World
Patricia Crone,Michael Cook +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors pointed out the intimate link between the Jewish religion and the earliest forms of Islam and published a paperback edition of their book, which made the authors' conclusions widely accessible to teachers and students of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
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The Opponents of the Writing of Tradition in Early Islam
TL;DR: In the first half of the 6th century, the Hanbalite scholar Abui 'l-Farag ibn al-Gawzl (d. 597) wrote a book to encourage his lazy contemporaries to greater efforts in the memorisation of Tradition as mentioned in this paper.