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John Cooper (Islamic studies scholar)

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John Cooper
Born1947
Died1998
outside Reims in northern France
NationalityBritish
Scientific career
FieldsIslamic Studies
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
Thesis Intellect and Language: A Case Study of the Philosophical Foundations of Shii Legal Methodology
Doctoral advisorWilferd Ferdinand Madelung

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]

Works

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  • 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

References

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  1. ^ Melville, Charles (1997). "John Cooper (1947-1998)". Iranian Studies. 30 (3/4): 413–415. doi:10.1080/00210869708701891. ISSN 0021-0862. JSTOR 4311108.
  2. ^ "Obituary: John Cooper". The Independent. 24 January 1998.