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 Clare Harris FBA

Art, photography, museums and material culture of Tibet, the Tibetan diaspora and India. Anthropological, art historical and curatorial research on the representation of Tibet internationally in the past and present

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Mr Timothy Clark FBA

Pictorial arts in early modern Japan; Katsushika Hokusai

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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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