Michael Cook

If you like The Shining, The Sixth Sense, and The Haunting of Hill House, you'll love this book. In the winter of 1974, Old Man Winter came calling, again. In August of '74, Detective Penelope Bryce had just won her four-year legal battle with the City of Philadelphia and finally earned her Detective Badge. Her first case ended up being her last. Penny's new partner, Detective Frank Bruno, was wrestling with his own demons when he came across Old Man Winter himself, Garrison Winter. The grizzled detective would finally meet his match. Detectives Bryce and Bruno would attempt to chase down the man they suspected in the disappearances of nine elderly people across seven states and five decades. Who was the phantom, the ghost, or the devil that they were chasing? Only death would answer their question.

Old Man Winter: Heavenly Gates

Riʻdwān Sayyid

Abdulrahman Al-Salimi

ʻAmmār Jāāʻsī

كوك، مايكل،

الأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر في الفكر الإسلامي

Particia Crone

Hagarism:The Making of the Islamic World

Michael Allan Cook

"Michael Cook's massive study in Islamic ethics, Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought, was published to much acclaim in 2001. It was described by one reviewer as a masterpiece. In that book, the author reflected on the Islamic injunction, incumbent on every Muslim, to forbid wrongdoing. The present book is a short, accessible survey of the same material. Using anecdotes and stories from Islamic sources to illustrate the argument, Cook unravels the complexities of the subject. Moving backwards and forwards through time, he demonstrates how the past informs the present. By the end, the reader will be familiar with a colourful array of characters from Islamic history ranging from the celebrated thinker Ghazzali, to the caliph Harun al-Rashid, to the Ayatollah Khumayni. The book educates and entertains - at its heart, however, is an important message about the Islamic tradition, its values, and the relevance of those values today".--p. [1]

An Introduction

Forbidding Wrong in Islam

Why does Islam play a larger role in contemporary politics than other religions? Is there something about the Islamic heritage that makes Muslims more likely than adherents of other faiths to invoke it in their political life? If so, what is it? Ancient Religions, Modern Politics seeks to answer these questions by examining the roles of Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity in modern political life, placing special emphasis on the relevance--or irrelevance--of their heritages to today's social and political concerns. Michael Cook takes an in-depth, comparative look at political identity, social values, attitudes to warfare, views about the role of religion in various cultural domains, and conceptions of the polity. In all these fields he finds that the Islamic heritage offers richer resources for those engaged in current politics than either the Hindu or the Christian heritages. He uses this finding to explain the fact that, despite the existence of Hindu and Christian counterparts to some aspects of Islamism, the phenomenon as a whole is unique in the world today. The book also shows that fundamentalism--in the sense of a determination to return to the original sources of the religion--is politically more adaptive for Muslims than it is for Hindus or Christians. A sweeping comparative analysis by one of the world's leading scholars of premodern Islam, Ancient Religions, Modern Politics sheds important light on the relationship between the foundational texts of these three great religious traditions and the politics of their followers today.

The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective

Ancient Religions, Modern Politics

MARIA LUIZA X. DE A. BORGES

De forma abrangente mas detalhista, Michael Cook conduz o leitor em uma fascinante viagem por dez mil anos de história. Assim, aborda desde o surgimento da civilização até a globalização no mundo contemporâneo, passando por todos os continentes e suas fases de evolução cultural, e examina a fundo costumes e tradições específicos. O livro toma como ponto de partida a perturbadora questão - poderia a história humana ter se desenvolvido de modo radicalmente diferente? Combinando diversos campos do saber - paleontologia, geologia e lingüística histórica, por exemplo -, o autor investiga o que levou o homem a adotar certas formas de organização e não outras. E aponta a agricultura como chave para a virada da humanidade em direção à civilização.

Uma Breve História do Homem

Swan Lake, the Making of a Ballet

Anyone who has lost a parent, grandparent, or other mentor regrets not asking certain questions or worse struggles to recall the answer. Some mistakenly believe these truths or Maxims are not relevant. The truth is often debated but always relevant. This book, "Meditations for Modern Man" is broken up into nine chapters: Leadership, Morality, Logic, Facts, Liberty, Criticism, Character, Education, and Politics. Each section starts with a definition and proceeds with Maxims I developed by being a loyal follower, moral leader, and compassionate parent.

Wisdom from Your Father

Meditations for Modern Man

Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story is the first full-length study to concentrate on the engagement between detective fiction and the ghost story, one of the central relationships in all popular genres. It features works from many of the giants in both traditions including Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, M. R. James, John Dickson Carr, Susan Hill and Tony Hillerman. The Haunted Text includes a new and lively reading of The Hound of the Baskervilles, a comparison between Susan Hill's The Woman in Black and the Simon Serrailler novels, and discussions on the ghost-haunted city of Rebus's Edinburgh and Tony Hillerman's novels about the Navajo people of the Southwestern United States. What emerges is a surprising picture of a long and influential association which has had a major effect on the development of detective fiction. This fascinating book will be of interest to both scholars and general readers alike.

The Haunted Text

Detective Fiction and the Ghost Story

The Sun Shines at Midnight and Other Lyrics

Carol Bakhos

An edited collection on the historical, religious, and cultural contexts of the origins of the Qur'an.

Jahiliyya, Late Antiquity, and the Qur'an

Islam and Its Past

Patricia Crone

Professor of Islamic History at the Institute for Advanced Study Patricia Crone

Professor of Near Eastern Studies Michael Cook, Dr

A study of Islamic civilisation and the intimate link between Jewish religion and the earliest forms of Islam.

Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World

A fascinating exploration of human history over the last ten thousand years.

A Brief History of the Human Race

It's late September 2019 when a young astronomer working at the Haleakala Space Observatory, in Maui Hawaii, accidentally spots a black dot in the night sky that is occulting the stars that lie behind it. The Earth-sized black sphere is in our solar system and is calculated to be closely trailing Earth by only seventy-five million miles. And, is on the same ecliptic plane.Black Earth - How We Got Here is a story that has never been told before. It's a story that will connect the dots of the universe and answer the age old questions of Are we alone in the universe? How humans came to be on Earth? What are the origins of religion, racism and segregation?What happens next will bridge the gap between Earth and Zenith, life and death, time and space, and will result in the heartbreaking story of love, family, and mankind's past, present and future.

How We Got Here

Black Earth

What kind of duty do we have to try to stop other people doing wrong? The question is intelligible in just about any culture, but few of them seek to answer it in a rigourous fashion. The most striking exception is found in the Islamic tradition, where 'commanding right' and 'forbidding wrong' is a central moral tenet already mentioned in the Koran. As an historian of Islam whose research has ranged widely over space and time, Michael Cook is well placed to interpret this complex subject. His book represents the first sustained attempt to map the history of Islamic reflection on this obligation. It covers the origins of Muslim thinking about 'forbidding wrong', the relevant doctrinal developments over the centuries, and its significance in Sunni and Shi'ite thought today. In this way the book contributes to the understanding of Islamic thought, its relevance to contemporary Islamic politics and ideology, and raises fundamental questions for the comparative study of ethics.

Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought

Muhammad

The Koran has constituted a remarkably strong core of identity and continuity for a religious tradition that is now in its fifteenth century. This Very Short Introduction explores the significance of the Koran both in the modern world and in traditional Muslim culture. Michael Cook provides a lucid and direct account of the Koran as codex, as scripture, as liturgy, and as the embodiment of truth, and examines its means of formation and dissemination. He also discusses issues of interpretation for certain key verses, demonstrating that fecundity of the text for readers throughout the world. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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