David Cook (historian)

David Cook is an American historian and professor of the history of Islam at Rice University. Cook earned his PhD at the University of Chicago. Cook is noted among scholars of Islam for his "diligent reading and clear translations" of Islamic texts.[1]

## Books

* Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic. Princeton: Darwin Press, 2003, in the series "Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam".
* Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literature. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005.
* Understanding Jihad. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.[1]
* Martyrdom in Islam. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press , 2007.[2][3][4][5]
* Understanding and Addressing Suicide Attacks (with Olivia Allison). Westport, CT: Praeger Press, 2007.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kelsay, John. International Journal of Middle East Studies 39, no. 1 (2007): 134–35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4129122.
2. ↑ Hawting, G. (2009). The English Historical Review, 124(506), 116–117. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/20485482
3. ↑ DeLong-Bas, Natana J. The Historian 71, no. 2 (2009): 340–41. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24454501.
4. ↑ Lawson, Todd. Middle East Journal 62, no. 4 (2008): 730–31. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25482590.
5. ↑ Melchert, Christopher. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 52, no. 2 (2009): 343-44. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25651171.

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