Michael Cook (historian)

Michael Cook
Professor Cook during the Holberg Symposium, 2014
Born
Michael Allan Cook

1940 (age 83–84)
NationalityBritish
Academic background
Alma materKing's College, Cambridge
SOAS University of London
Academic work
InstitutionsSchool of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Princeton University
Notable worksHagarism (1977)
Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought (2000)
Websitenes.princeton.edu/people/michael-cook

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