"Islamic Fundamentalism" - Public Lecture
21/Jan/13 09:24 Filed in: CSTPV Seminar Series
28th February 2013
5.00 pm, Old Union Diner
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Biography
Professor Michael Cook is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Before joining the Near Eastern Studies Department there in 1986, he taught for twenty years in the History Department of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1990 and received a Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in 2002. His field is the history of the Islamic world. His books include The Koran: a very short introduction (2000); Commanding right and forbidding wrong in Islamic thought (2000); A brief history of the human race (2003); and Studies in the origins of early Islamic culture and tradition (2004). He is the general editor of The New Cambridge History of Islam (2010).
Michael Cook is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Abstract
The lecture will address three questions. First, is the salience of Islam in the politics of the contemporary Muslim world unusual by global standards? Second, if it is unusual, are the reasons to be found in distinctive features of the conditions under which Muslim populations currently live, or in distinctive features of the religion they have inherited? Third, what light does the term “fundamentalism” shed on the phenomenon?
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5.00 pm, Old Union Diner
ALL WELCOME
Biography
Professor Michael Cook is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Before joining the Near Eastern Studies Department there in 1986, he taught for twenty years in the History Department of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1990 and received a Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in 2002. His field is the history of the Islamic world. His books include The Koran: a very short introduction (2000); Commanding right and forbidding wrong in Islamic thought (2000); A brief history of the human race (2003); and Studies in the origins of early Islamic culture and tradition (2004). He is the general editor of The New Cambridge History of Islam (2010).
Michael Cook is a Fellow of the British Academy.
Abstract
The lecture will address three questions. First, is the salience of Islam in the politics of the contemporary Muslim world unusual by global standards? Second, if it is unusual, are the reasons to be found in distinctive features of the conditions under which Muslim populations currently live, or in distinctive features of the religion they have inherited? Third, what light does the term “fundamentalism” shed on the phenomenon?
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