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| Author | Michael Cook |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication date | 2000 |
| Pages | 719 |
| ISBN | 978-0521130936 |
Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought is a 2000 non-fiction book about the evolution of Enjoining good and forbidding wrong in Islam by Michael Cook. The book is a winner of Albert Hourani Book Award and Farabi Award. An epitome of the Michael Cook's book was published under the title Forbidding wrong in Islam in 2003 by the Cambridge University Press. According to Cook, while the first title is organized around "schools, sects, and individuals," the epitome version focuses on the thematic questions.
Content
Michael Cook discusses the distinction between Islamic and Western concepts of wrong along with the actions to take on this regard. One significant contrast between Islam and the West is that, although Islam has rules and processes in place to avoid wrongdoing, the West prefers to wait until a wrong has already been done before taking action. Cook defines the Western response to wrong as "rescue," while the Islamic perspective is "forbidding wrong."
Reception
The book has been reviewed by Donna Robinson Divine and Ulrike Freitag.
Fred Donner praises the book as the pinnacle of classical philological orientalism, Christopher Melchert, Paul R. Powers, and Andrew Rippen all give positive assessments, and Michael Chamberlain calls it a "masterpiece." Wilfred Madelung adds one paragraph of criticism while at the same time predicting that the book will certainly become "a standard reference work in Islamic studies."
References
- Albert Hourani Book Award Archived 2010-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Malczycki, W. Matt (2008). "Review of Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought; Forbidding Wrong in Islam, Michael Cook". British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 35 (1): 144–147. ISSN 1353-0194.
- Divine, Donna Robinson (2002). "Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought: Michael Cook". Digest of Middle East Studies. 11 (2): 110–113. doi:10.1111/j.1949-3606.2002.tb00469.x. ISSN 1949-3606.
- "Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought". Reviews in History.
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