Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought

Michael Cook's Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought is a major scholarly study tracing how a specific Quranic principle, the duty to command right and forbid wrong, developed across the full breadth of Islamic legal, theological and mystical literature over many centuries, written by a leading historian of early Islamic thought. Its authority rests on an exceptionally wide primary-source base spanning multiple schools and centuries, a scale of comparative textual work respected across Islamic studies as a landmark reference. Given that scope, the book is necessarily a synthesis moving across many specific scholars and traditions rather than a deep monograph on any single figure's application of the principle, and readers wanting fine detail on one particular jurist or school's treatment should follow Cook's own citations into that narrower literature.