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Episode: "A History of Islam": Michael Cook
Pub date: 2024-05-29

Michael Cook's "A History of the Muslim World" is my favourite book of 2024. Together, we discussed:- Did Islamic science weaken due to religious authoritarianism?- Why, in the Middle East and North Africa, were there so few peasant rebellions?- Theologically, how important was Ghazali? - What determined the rate at which people converted to Islam?- Why was there so much religious syncretism and diversity in the Ottoman Empire?- Why did the Muslim world fall behind economically?- Did the Ottoman Empire ban the printing press? - Why is South Asia the only place where Muslims ruled for hundreds of years yet remained a minority? - When you study the global history of Islam, what is the best indicator of how Muslim they really were?- Did colonialism trigger an Islamic backlash?- Why do Muslim countries often have weak state capacity? Timur Kuran blames waqfs. Do you agree?"A History of the Muslim World": https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691236575/a-history-of-the-muslim-worldOn my Substack, you can see my earlier reviews: https://www.ggd.world/p/a-history-of-the-muslim-world-by

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