Michael Cook, Arab Identity before the Rise of Islam (LECTURE CANCELLED)

This lecture has been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances. We apologize to the Harvard CMES Tunisia community and followers for any inconvenience this may cause.

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The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

in collaboration with the Balzan Seminar for the Study of the Formation, Maintenance, and Failure of States in Muslim Societies invite you to: 

 "ARAB IDENTITY BEFORE THE RISE OF ISLAM" 

A lecture by Michael Cook, Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

Prof. Michael Cook is a historian of Islamic history. He has written and published extensively on the formation of Islamic civilization, pre-Islamic and early Islamic Arabia, Quranic studies, the life of Prophet Muhammad and his Companions, the history of religious fundamentalism.

Prof. Cook studied History and Oriental Studies at King’s College, Cambridge and at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He taught and researched Islamic history and Economic History of the Middle East at SOAS. Then in 1986, he was appointed Cleveland E. Dodge Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Since 2007, he has been Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies.

Michael Cook was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2001. He is the recipient of the Albert Hourani Book Award (2001). He has been a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2004 and has received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Mellon Foundation (2002), the Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities at Princeton (2006), the Farabi Award in the Humanities and Islamic Studies (2008), the Holberg Prize in 2014, and the Balzan Prize in 2019.

Selected publications by Prof. Cook: The Koran: A Very Short Introduction, 2000; Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought, 2001 (Winner of the Albert Hourani Book Award); A Brief History of the Human Race, New York 2003; Ancient Religions, Modern Politics: The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective, 2014; and A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity, 2024

This event will be held in person.

Admission Free