Michael A. Cook

Michael A. Cook is a British-American historian and academic who is one of the world's leading scholars of Islamic history. He is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and the author of numerous works on Muslim history, theology and civilisation. His scholarship spans the early Islamic period to the modern era. A History of the Muslim World traces the history of Islamic civilisation from its origins to the present day, offering a comprehensive and nuanced account that covers politics, culture, intellectual life and religious development across centuries and continents. Cook writes with scholarly authority and clarity, making a vast and complex subject accessible to general readers. Available as both a book and an audiobook, A History of the Muslim World offers essential listening and reading for anyone seeking to understand the rich, diverse and deeply influential history of the Muslim world from one of the most distinguished historians in the field.