#1075 Michael Cook: A History of the Muslim World (Part 1)
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Hello, everyone, welcome to a new episode of The Desenter. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lops, and today I'm joined by Dr. Michael Cook. He is class of nineteen forty three University Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He is the author of several books, and today we're going to talk about his latest one, A History of the Muslim World from its Origins. Тут модерніті. So, Doctor Cook, welcome to the show. It's a big pleasure to everyone. Yeah.
It's a great pleasure for me to be here. Great. So let me start by asking you before we get into the actual history of the Muslim world. What is the Muslim world? I mean, what is it characterized by? What are we exactly talking about when we reference the Muslim world? Right. And like you know, like so many of these uh phrases, it's one that different people could use in different ways. But I mean what I want to mean by it
Is any part of the world Where Muslims are one the majority of the population Or to The rulers.
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