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""A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"" ""A timely, wide-ranging examination of the Muslim world. . . . Cook’s study sheds crucial light on Islamic development across borders and centuries."" * Kirkus Reviews * ""Cook tours the globe, bringing cultures and customs to life in evocative detail. . . . An accessible history of the Muslim world."" * Publishers Weekly * ""Glorious. . . . Necessarily a dense work, it is also delightful in its sheer scope and variety. This is especially true in a writer as witty as Cook, who sustains a breezy, Socratic style throughout. . . . The payoff for writing a book this ambitious and successful is that, for anyone interested in the history of Islam, Cook is now a must-read.""---Andrew Bernard, Washington Examiner ""[A History of the Muslim World] is truly a tour de force. . . . An invitation to take advantage of a lifetime of scholarship . . . packaged for consumption by readers of every background and interest."" * Choice Reviews * ""A fascinating work. It is written in a lucid and witty style that always tempts you to carry on reading to the bottom of the page, and then to turn over to the next one. ""---John McHugo, interLib

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Michael Cook is the Class of 1943 University Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. His books include Ancient Religions, Modern Politics: The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective (Princeton), A Brief History of the Human Race, and The Koran: A Very Short Introduction.

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