Bradley Cook

Bradley J. Cook {[email protected]} is the Provost at Southern Utah University and Professor of History. Prior to his current position he served as President of the Abu Dhabi Women’s College in the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Cook began his career in higher education in 1990 as the Special Assistant to the President at the American University in Cairo. He is the author of the book Classical Foundations of Islamic Educational Thought. He has degrees from Stanford University and the University of Oxford.

Pre-Mortality in Mystical Islam and the Cosmic Journey of the Soul

Articles/Essays – Volume 50, No. 1

Across centuries and cultures, the origin of the human soul has been a subject of deep interest and yearning, often finding wondrous expression in theology, philosophy, science, and art. Ruminating on the profound mystery of earthly existence, the noted medieval Ṣūfī mystic Jalāluddin Rūmī (d. 1273 CE) pondered:

All day I think about it, then at night I say it.
Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing?
I have no idea.
My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that,
and I intend to end up there.

The Palestinian Israeli Conflict Reconsidered

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 1

For more than fifty years, the conflict between Palestinian Arab nationalism and Jewish Zionism has been one of the most protracted and seemingly irreconcilable conflicts in the world. Most people have difficulties discussing this conflict in a detached or academic way because it is so fraught with emotion and consequence.

The Book of Abraham and the Islamic Qisas al-Anbiya’ (Tales of the Prophets) Extant Literature

Articles/Essays – Volume 33, No. 4

Dialogue 33.4 (Winter 2000): 137 – 146

“Perhaps the most controversial and intensely contested revelatory claim of Joseph Smith Jr. is his translation of ancient papyri ostensibly written by the hand of Abraham.”