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1) The Koran: A Very Short Introduction

Author

Cook, Michael

Series

Very Short Introductions

Language

English

Formats

eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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The Koran has constituted a remarkably strong core of identity and continuity for a religious tradition that is now in its fifteenth century. This Very Short Introduction explores the significance of the Koran both in the modern world and in traditional Muslim culture. Michael Cook provides a lucid and direct account of the Koran as codex, as scripture, as liturgy, and as the embodiment of truth, and examines its means of formation and dissemination....

2) A history of the Muslim world: from its origins to the dawn of modernity

Author

Cook, Michael

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Pub. Date

[2024]

Language

English

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"In Michael Cook's words, this book is "about a substantial slice of human history delimited by a particular cultural characteristic: adherance to Islam in some form or other. [...] A commitment to Islam makes a difference. Wherever a society and its rulers have come to be Muslim, this has meant a major discontinuity with its pre-Islamic past and a significant expansion of its relations with the wider Muslim world." Starting in the pre-Islamic Middle...