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born 1940 United Kingdom

Michael Allan Cook FBA (born in 1940) is a British historian and scholar of Islamic history. Cook is the general editor of The New Cambridge History of Islam.

United Kingdom
Historians

Also known as: Michael Cook

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Monotheism rejects other Gods and the people who worship them. It is in the nature of monotheism to pick a quarrel... this exclusive spirit lies behind the specter of monotheist terrorism.

With regard to the formal structure of the tradition, we need not beat about the bush. In obvious ways the Islamic heritage lends itself so easily to fundamentalization that it could almost be said to invite it.

Ancient religions, modern politics, the Islamic case in comparative perspective (2014)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Cook (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.