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Just started A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity by Michael A. Cook. Liked his Ancient Religions, Modern Politics (an attempt to compare Islam and its impact on politics to other Third World religions) so figured I'd give it a spin. At least, the sections about the emergence of Islam. I care much less about the six hundred pages after that.
Still in the early pre-Islamic period, and nothing is much of a surprise/deviation from the general story of the period as I know it. Interested to see how revisionist he gets, given his association with Crone and that whole school.
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