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

Current post

Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Yutaka Yoshida FBA

The philological and historical studies of Sogdian and other Middle Iranian texts unearthed from the area along the ancient Silk Roads

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Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams FBA

Philology Central and Inner Asia

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Professor Roel Sterckx FBA

Classical and literary Chinese language and philology; history, religion and thought of pre-imperial and early imperial China; text and manuscript studies (Warring States, Qin, and Han periods); the natural world in pre-modern China

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