Sweeping over the last 10,000 years of human history, this work addresses some of the most fascinating questions about our past. Michael Cook explores the great forces that have shaped our past - natural disasters, human ingenuity - and along the way zooms in on some of the details of history.
Sweeping over the last 10,000 years of human history, this work addresses some of the most fascinating questions about our past. Michael Cook explores...
The key sources for the reconstruction of the early history of Muslim dogma are a group of texts ascribed to authors of the late first century of the Hijra. These texts bear on two major doctrinal controversies, the Murji'ite and the Qadarite, raising issues related on the one hand to the judgement of the events of the First Civil War, and on the other to the dilemma of predestination and free will. Part I and II of this study present a new source for the early history of the Murji'a, and argue new positions regarding the early doctrine and politics of the movement. Parts III and IV are an...
The key sources for the reconstruction of the early history of Muslim dogma are a group of texts ascribed to authors of the late first century of the ...
Michael Cook's classic study, Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought (Cambridge, 2001), reflected upon the Islamic injunction to forbid wrongdoing. This book is a short, accessible survey of the same material. Using Islamic history to illustrate his argument, Cook unravels the complexities of the subject by demonstrating how the past informs the present. At the book's core is an important message about the values of Islamic traditions and their relevance in the modern world.
Michael Cook's classic study, Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought (Cambridge, 2001), reflected upon the Islamic injunction to for...
