Books by Michael A. Cook
Found 2 books
That is from his new book A History of the Muslim World: From its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity . I had not known that in the early 16th century Iran was still predominantly Sunni. And:
6. Michael Cook, A History of the Muslim World: From its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity . Mostly ends at 1800, this will become one of the standard, must-read histories of Islam and its multiple homes. The section on India, which is what I have been reading, is strongly conceptual and novel compared to other survey books such as Hourani. At the very least a good book, possibly a great book.
That is the new Princeton University Press book by Michael Cook and the subtitle is The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective . It is a very good comparative look at why Islam has evolved to have a special influence on politics, relative to the other major religions: