Albert Hourani Book Award

The Albert Hourani Book Award was established in 1991 to recognize outstanding publishing in Middle East studies. The award was named for Albert Hourani to recognize his long and distinguished career as teacher and mentor. Announced at the Awards Ceremony at MESA’s annual meeting, the Albert Hourani Book Award honors a work that exemplifies scholarly excellence and clarity of presentation in the tradition of Albert Hourani.

The award winners appear below. The nomination guidelines are available under “Related” below right.

Jessica M. Marglin

Jessica M. Marglin

University of Southern California

The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship Across the Modern Mediterranean

Princeton University Press

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Nomi Stone

Nomi Stone

University of Texas, Dallas

Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire

University of California 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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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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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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Jack Tannous

Jack Tannous

Princeton University

The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers
Princeton University Press

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Fredrik Meiton

Fredrik Meiton

University of New Hampshire

Electrical Palestine: Capital and Technology from the Empire to Nation
University of California Press

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J.R. Osborn

J.R. Osborn

Georgetown University

Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design
Harvard University Press, 2017

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Alireza Doostdar

Alireza Doostdar

The University of Chicago

The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny
Princeton University Press, 2018

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Noah Salomon

Noah Salomon

Carleton College

For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State
Princeton University Press, 2016

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Nükhet Varlık

Nükhet Varlık

Rutgers University - Newark

Plague and Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: The Ottoman Experience, 1347-1600
Cambridge University Press

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Kennth M. Cuno

Kennth M. Cuno

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Modernizing Marriage: Family, Ideology and Law in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Egypt
Syracuse University Press, 2015

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Brian Catlos

Brian Catlos

University of Colorado at Boulder/UC Santa Cruz

Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom, c. 1050-1614
Cambridge University Press, 2014

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Patricia Crone

Patricia Crone

Institute for Advanced Study

The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism
Cambridge University Press, 2012

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Taner Akçam

Taner Akçam

Clark University

The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman Empire
Princeton University Press, 2012

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Nile Green

Nile Green

University of California, Los Angeles

Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean, 1840-1915
Cambridge University Press

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Benjamin Claude Brower

Benjamin Claude Brower

University of Texas at Austin

A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France’s Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902
Columbia University Press (series “History and Society of the Modern Middle East” Leila Fawaz, editor)

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