MESA Book Awards

Kiren Aziz Chaudhry

University of California, Berkeley

The Price of Wealth: Economies and Institutions in the Middle East
Cornell University Press

Andrew Shryock

State University of New York, Buffalo

Nationalism and Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan
University of California Press

Rashid I. Khalidi

Rashid I. Khalidi

University of Chicago

Palestinian Identity: The Construction of  Modern National Consciousness
Columbia University Press

Michael Gilsenan

New York University

Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence and Narrative in Arab Society
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. and University of California Press

Gülrü Neçipoglü

Harvard University

The Topkapi Scroll—Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture
The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities

Julia Clancy-Smith

University of Arizona

Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800–1904)
University of California Press

Devin DeWeese

Indiana University

Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde: Baba Tukles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition
Penn State University Press

Chibli Mallat

University of London

The Renewal of Islamic Law: Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr, Najaf and the Shi’i International
Cambridge University Press

Richard M. Eaton

University of Arizona

The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760
University of California Press

Tarif Khalidi

American University of Beirut

Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period
Cambridge University Press

Sabra J. Webber

Ohio State University

Romancing the Real: Folklore and Ethnographic Representation in North Africa
University of Pennsylvania Press

R.D. McChesney

New York University

Waqf in Central Asia: Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine
Princeton University Press

Kenneth Cuno

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Pasha’s Peasants: Land, Society, and Economy in Lower Egypt, 1740–1858
Cambridge University Press

Brinkley Messick

University of Michigan

The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society
University of California Press

Steven Caton

University of California, Santa Cruz

“Peaks of Yemen I Summon”: Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe
University of California Press

Abraham Marcus

University of Texas at Austin

The Middle East on the Eve of Modernity: Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century
Columbia University Press

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