Arif Dalila
MESA awarded the 2002 Academic Freedom Award to Arif Dalila for his courageous advocacy of democratic rights and civil liberties in Syria.
Michael Cook
Princeton University
Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought
Cambridge University Press
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
MESA awarded its first Academic Freedom Award in 2001 to Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim in recognition of his dedication to the promotion of democratic rights and civil liberties through his teaching and scholarship, and his commitment as a public intellectual to the principles of free expression and free exchange of information and ideas.
Tayeb El-Hibri
University of Massachusetts
Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate
Cambridge University Press
Carole Hillenbrand
University of Edinburgh
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
Edinburgh University Press
Meron Benvenisti
Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948
University of California Press
Eugene Rogan
St. Antony’s College, Oxford University
Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850–1921
Cambridge University Press
