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]
John Cooper | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1947 |
| Died | 1998 outside Reims in northern France |
| Nationality | British |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Islamic Studies |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Intellect and Language: A Case Study of the Philosophical Foundations of Shii Legal Methodology |
| Doctoral advisor | Wilferd Ferdinand Madelung |
Works
edit- 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
edit- ^ Melville, Charles (1997). "John Cooper (1947-1998)". Iranian Studies. 30 (3/4): 413–415. doi:10.1080/00210869708701891. ISSN 0021-0862. JSTOR 4311108.
- ^ "Obituary: John Cooper". The Independent. 24 January 1998.