Juan Cole

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Full Name	Juan Cole
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	Oct 23, 1952(1952-10-23)
Age	72
Birthplace	Albuquerque
Country	United States
Birth City	New Mexico
Horoscope	Libra

Juan Cole Biography

Juan Cole is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on October 23, 1952 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. Kahlil Gibran is an acclaimed Lebanese American poet writer, essayist, and artist that wrote his work in Arabic and English. Cole is the translator of three volumes from his writings in Arabic. One of them, Broken Wings (al- Ajnihah al-Mutakassira 1912) The novel is said to be the first novel written in Arabic and contains early feminist themes. It protests against the arranged marriage and corruption.

Cole has mastered Persian during the 1970s and 80s. He has written about the early modern and contemporary aspects of Iran’s history and culture, including the Qajar period as well as Iran’s Islamic Republic from 1979.

Cole lived in Beirut for several years, and was present for part of the 1975–1976 civil war. His overview of 20th century Lebanese history blames the CIA for rigging elections there in 1957, in order to allow president Camille Chamoun a second term. (Chamoun had apparently persuaded Dwight D. Eisenhower that the Druze leaned towards Communism.) This had the effect of forcing pro- Nasser Arab nationalists outside the political process. Cole additionally blames the influx of 100,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948—and the various later military actions against them by Syria and Israel—for the condition of Lebanese politics today.

Cole obtained his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University in 1975, having majored in History and Literature of Religions. For two quarters in his senior year he conducted a research project in Beirut, Lebanon and returned to the city as a graduate student in the fall of 1975, but the civil war prevented Cole from continuing his studies there. Therefore, he pursued a master’s degree at the American University in Cairo in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, graduating in 1978. Cole then returned to Beirut for another year and worked as a translator for a newspaper. In 1979, Cole enrolled at the University of California, Los Angeles as a doctoral student in the field of Islamic Studies, graduating in 1984. After graduation, Cole was appointed Assistant Professor of History at the University of Michigan where he became a full professor in 1995.

Cole is of mixed Catholic and Protestant background and was raised as an unconsecrated Protestant on military bases. In the latter half of the 1960s and 1970s, Cole began to become fascinated by Eastern religions, such as Buddhism. Cole was a member of the Baha’i Faith in 1972 as an undergraduate student at Northwestern and the faith then became the subject of his research. He left the faith in 1996 following disagreements with the Baha’i leadership regarding the Baha’i administration system and the need to read works written by Baha’i authors before writing about the faith. Later, he ceased being interested in organized religions for personal reasons.

Juan Cole Net Worth

Juan Cole is one of the richest Historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Juan Cole 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

John Ricardo I. “Juan” Cole (born October 23rd 1952) is an American academic and a commentator on the contemporary Middle East and South Asia. He is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. Since 2002, he’s published a blog, The Informed Comment (juancole.com).

Cole prefers international (and particularly UN) efforts over unilateral military initiatives. He prefers multi-ethnic states to separatist movements. Because of his experiences during the 1970s, 1960s of religious counter- culture, he sees Islam (along and other religious traditions) as generally positive, but it has been altered by certain political followers (and the critics).

Cole converted to the Bahá’í Faith in 1972, but later resigned in 1996 after conflicts with members of the Bahá’í administration who perceived him as extreme and threatened him with a Bahá’í version of excommunication. Cole went on to critically attack the Bahá’í Faith in several books and articles written from 1998-2000, describing a prominent Bahá’í as “inquisitor” and “bigot”, and describing Bahá’í institutions as socially isolating, dictatorial, and controlling, and with financial irregularities.

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Since 2002, Cole has published the blog Informed Comment, covering “History, Middle East, South Asia, Religious Studies, and the War on Terror”. Blog entries include comments on widely reported articles in Western media, summaries of important articles from Arabic and Israeli news sources, and letters and discussions with both critics and supporters.

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Cole was asked to address the pros and cons of the building war against Iraq in January 2003 for the journal of the University of Michigan International Institute. He wrote that any invasion of Iraq would inevitably be rejected by Iraqis and the Arab world as a form of neocolonialism. According to Cole: “The Sunnis of Iraq could well turn to groups like al-Qaida, having lost the ideals of the Baath. Iraqi Shi’ites might become easier to recruit into Khomeinism of the Iranian sort, and become a bulwark for the shaky regime in Shi’ite Iran.” Considering the problem of ethnic politics, he commented, “A post-war Iraq may well be riven with factionalism that impedes the development of a well- ensconced new government.” He rejected the argument that Baathist Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction” or backing of terrorism posed threats to the United States. Cole admitted that he had had “mixed feelings” on the issue—i.e., he opposed Saddam Hussein’s regime, but feared disaster and opposed international illegality. He was insistent that any war would be illegal without a UN Security Council resolution (which was not obtained by the Bush administration). His position on the war resembled that of the French government, which is generally held to have opposed it. By January 2003, he said he had become “cynical” about the Bush administration motives for the war. On the day of the U.S. invasion, Cole wrote that “for all the concerns one might have about the aftermath, the removal of Saddam Hussein and the murderous Baath regime from power will be worth the sacrifices that are about to be made on all sides.” He has explained that this posting was not intended to show support for the invasion: “The passage quoted … was not about whether the war was legal or not. Being from a military family, it mattered to me as an ethical issue whether troops lives were being lost for no good reason, in an illegal boondoggle. I decided on careful deliberation that even though the war was wrong, the lives lost would not be in vain, since a tyrannical regime would have fallen. To say that some good could come of an illegal act is not to endorse the illegal act.”