June 17, 2014

Other events in Norway connected with the Prize included: a conversation with journalist and writer Alf van der Hagen on Cook's scholarship on the history of Islam and his latest book, Ancient Religions, Modern Politics: The Islamic Case in Comparative Perspective, on June 2; the Holberg Prize Symposium, held June 3 in Oslo, at which Cook gave the Holberg Lecture, “Monotheism and the Rise of Islam”; and a conversation with Jarle Simensen, historian and professor emeritus at the University of Oslo, on “The Long-Term Geopolitics of the Middle East.”