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Waleed Ziad
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus
Harvard University Press
Albert Hourani Book Award
The Albert Hourani Book Award was established in 1991 to recognize outstanding publishing in Middle East studies. The award was named for Albert Hourani to recognize his long and distinguished career as teacher and mentor. Announced at the Awards Ceremony at MESA’s annual meeting, the Albert Hourani Book Award honors a work that exemplifies scholarly excellence and clarity of presentation in the tradition of Albert Hourani.
The award winners appear below. The nomination guidelines are available under “Related” below right.
Helen Pfeifer
University of Cambridge
Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands
Princeton University Press
Michael Christopher Low
Iowa State University
Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj
Columbia University Press
James Pickett
University of Pittsburgh
Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia
Cornell University Press
Caterina Scaramelli
Boston University
How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey
Stanford University Press
Wendy M. K. Shaw
Free University Berlin
What is 'Islamic' Art? Between Religion and Perception
Cambridge University Press
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins
Bard College
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
Stanford University Press
Jack Tannous
Princeton University
The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers
Princeton University Press
Fredrik Meiton
University of New Hampshire
Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from the Empire to Nation
University of California Press
J.R. Osborn
Georgetown University
Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design
Harvard University Press, 2017
Alireza Doostdar
The University of Chicago
The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny
Princeton University Press, 2018
Noah Salomon
Carleton College
For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State
Princeton University Press, 2016
Nükhet Varlık
Rutgers University - Newark
Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600
Cambridge University Press
Kennth M. Cuno
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology and Law in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Egypt
Syracuse University Press, 2015
Brian Catlos
University of Colorado at Boulder/UC Santa Cruz
Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c. 1050-1614
Cambridge University Press, 2014
Patricia Crone
Institute for Advanced Study
The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism
Cambridge University Press, 2012
Taner Akçam
Clark University
The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire
Princeton University Press, 2012
Samuel A. White
Oberlin College
The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Cambridge University Press
Nile Green
University of California, Los Angeles
Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915
Cambridge University Press
Rochelle A. Davis
Georgetown University
Palestinian Village Histories: Geographies of the Displaced
Stanford University Press
Benjamin Claude Brower
University of Texas at Austin
A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France’s Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902
Columbia University Press (series “History and Society of the Modern Middle East” Leila Fawaz, editor)
Sophia Vasalou
University of Cambridge
Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu’tazilite Ethics
Princeton University Press
Ussama Makdisi
Rice University
Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
Cornell University Press
Marc David Baer
University of California, Irvine
Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe
Oxford University Press