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 Derek Peterson FBA

Intellectual and cultural history of eastern Africa; the composition of books; the politics of archives; the infrastructure of religious experience; the social practice of non-conformity; Idi Amin

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Professor Peter Kornicki FBA

Oriental and African Studies East Asia China, Japan, Korea South-East Asia Vietnam

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Professor Jean-Pierre Mahé FBA

Languages & civilisations of the Christian Near East (Armenian, Caucasian, Albanian, Coptic, Georgian); epigraphy. palaeography; Armenian history;

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