
Zahra Ayubi
Dartmouth College
Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society
Columbia University Press
MESA has three annual book awards:
The Albert Hourani Book Award recognizes a work that exemplifies scholarly excellence and clarity of presentation in the tradition of Albert Hourani.
The Nikki Keddie Book Award focuses on exceptional scholarship in religion, revolution, and/or society.
The Fatima Mernissi Book Award is given to the best work in studies of gender, sexuality, and women’s lived experience.
In addition to its three book awards, MESA also administers the Roger Owen Book Award which is given to the best work in the area of economics/economic history/political economy.
The award winners appear below. The nomination guidelines are available under “Related” below right.
Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society
Columbia University Press
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey
University of California Press
A Slave Between Empires: A Transimperial History of North Africa
Columbia University Press
Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Cambridge University Press
What is 'Islamic' Art? Between Religion and Perception
Cambridge University Press
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine
Stanford University Press
Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam
University of Chicago Press
Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics
University of California Press
Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture
Harvard University Press
For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers
Stanford University Press
The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers
Princeton University Press
Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from the Empire to Nation
University of California Press
Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work, and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait
Duke University Press, 2017
Impossible Exodus: Iraqi Jews in Israel
Stanford University Press, 2017
A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran
University of California Press, 2017
Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design
Harvard University Press, 2017
The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny
Princeton University Press, 2018
For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State
Princeton University Press, 2016
Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600
Cambridge University Press
Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology and Law in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Egypt
Syracuse University Press, 2015
Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c. 1050-1614
Cambridge University Press, 2014
The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism
Cambridge University Press, 2012
The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire
Princeton University Press, 2012
The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Cambridge University Press