MESA Book Awards

Chris Gratien

Chris Gratien

University of Virginia

The Unsettled Plain: An Environmental History of the Late Ottoman Frontier

Stanford University Press 

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Waleed Ziad

Waleed Ziad

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Hidden Caliphate: Sufi Saints beyond the Oxus and Indus

Harvard University Press 

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Kathryn Babayan

Kathryn Babayan

University of Michigan

The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan

Stanford University Press 

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Helen Pfeifer

Helen Pfeifer

University of Cambridge

Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands

Princeton University Press 

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Niloofar Haeri

Niloofar Haeri

Johns Hopkins University

Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran
Stanford University Press

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Hagar Kotef

Hagar Kotef

SOAS, University of London

The Colonizing Self: Or, Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine
Duke University Press

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James Pickett

James Pickett

University of Pittsburgh

Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia
Cornell University Press

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Sima Shakhsari

Sima Shakhsari

University of Minnesota

Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan
Duke University Press

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Zahra Ayubi

Zahra Ayubi

Dartmouth College

Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society
Columbia University Press

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Maziyar Ghiabi

Maziyar Ghiabi

SOAS, University of London and University of Exeter

Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Cambridge University Press

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Ilana Feldman

Ilana Feldman

George Washington University

Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics
University of California Press

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Eric Calderwood

Eric Calderwood

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Colonial al-Andalus: Spain and the Making of Modern Moroccan Culture
Harvard University Press

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