Sussan Siavoshi
Trinity University
Montazeri: The Life and Thought of Iran's Revolutionary Ayatollah
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2017
Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award
The Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award was established in 2005, and administered by MESA until 2018, to recognize outstanding publishing in Iranian studies.
The award winners for 2007-2018 appear below.
Zuzanna Olszewska
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
The Pearl of Dari: Poetry and Personhood Among Young Afghans in Iran
Indiana University Press, 2015
Richard Payne
University of Chicago
A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity
University of California Press, 2015
Farzin Vejdani
Ryerson University
Making History in Iran: Education, Nationalism, and Print Culture
Stanford University Press, 2015
Rudi Matthee, Willem Floor, and Patrick Clawson
The Monetary History of Iran: From the Safavids to the Qajars
I.B. Tauris, 2013
Patricia Crone
Institute for Advanced Studies
Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism
Cambridge University Press
Sebouh Aslanian
UCLA
From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean: The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchents from New Julfa
University of California Press
Colin P. Mitchell
Dalhousie University
The Practice of Politics in Safavid Iran: Power, Religion and Rhetoric
I.B. Tauris Publishers
Richard W. Bulliet
Columbia University
Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran
Columbia University Press
Arash Khazeni
Pomona College
Tribes and Empire on the Margins of Nineteenth-Century Iran
University of Washington Press
Sussan Babaie
Fulbright Regional Scholar, Egypt and Syria
Isfahan and its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi’ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran
Edinburgh University Press
Shafique N. Virani
University of Toronto
The Ismailis in the Middle Ages: A History of Survival, a Search for Salvation
Oxford University Press
Maria E. Subtelny
University of Toronto
Timurids in Transition: Turko-Persian Politics and Acculturation in Medieval Iran
Brill Publishers
Vanessa Martin
University of London
The Qajar Pact: Bargaining, Protest and the State in 19th Century Persia
I.B. Tauris
Beatrice Forbes Manz
Tufts University
Power, Politics and Religion in Timurid Iran
Cambridge University Press