Professor Michael Cook FBA
The history of the Islamic world; the formation & development of traditional Islamic thought, & its implications in the modern world; Islamic thought, & its implications in the modern world; Islamic history in comparative perspective.
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2011
- Subjects
- Religion
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Current post
Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Gavin Flood FBA
Hindu religious literature in the Middle Ages (post-Gupta period); comparative religion, with particular reference to Hinduism and Christianity; philosophical phenomenology and hermeneutics
Professor Sujit Pradin Sivasundaram FBA
World history, especially since 1750: sciences and environments; race and racisms; the Indian and Pacific Oceans; Sri Lanka and South and Southeast Asia; material cultures; cities; human-animal relations; empires
