Michael Cook is an American historian and scholar of Islamic history. He has co-authored a number of books with Patricia Crone, notably The Making of the Islamic World.

He was educated at Cambridge and the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London. In 1986 he took up a position at Princeton University. In 2002 he received the prestigious $1.5 million Distinguished Achievement Award from the Mellon Foundation for significant contribution to humanities research.

Works

• A Brief History of the Human Race 2005
• Studies in the Origins of Early Islamic Culture and Tradition 2004
• Early Muslim Dogma : A Source-Critical Study 2003
• Forbidding Wrong in Islam : An Introduction (Themes in Islamic History) 2003
• Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought 2001
• Manual of Archival Description 2000
• The Koran: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) 2000
• Founders of Faith : The Buddha ; Confucius ; Jesus ; Muhammad
• Muhammad (Past Masters)
• The Making of the Islamic World

Historiographers of Islam