John Cooper (Islamic studies scholar)
American scholar of Islam
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John (Yahya) Cooper (24 August 1947 – 9 January 1998) was a British Islamic studies scholar and the E. G. Browne lecturer in Persian at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge.[1][2]
Born1947
Died1998 (aged 50–51)
outside Reims in northern France
FieldsIslamic Studies
WorkplacesUniversity of Cambridge
John Cooper | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947 |
| Died | 1998 (aged 50–51) outside Reims in northern France |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Islamic Studies |
| Workplaces | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Intellect and Language: A Case Study of the Philosophical Foundations of Shii Legal Methodology |
| Wilferd Ferdinand Madelung | |
Works
- A Manual of Islamic beliefs and practice
- Islam and modernity: Muslim intellectuals respond
- Jāmiʻ al-bayān ʻan taʼwīl āy al-Qurʼān
- La vie berbère par les textes : parlors du sud-ouest marocain (tachelhit)
- The significance of Islamic manuscripts : proceedings of the inaugural conference of al-Furqān Islamic Heritage Foundation
- Ṭabarī. The commentary on the Qurʼān
- Universal science : an introduction to Islamic metaphysics