MESA Book Awards

Patricia Crone

Patricia Crone

Institute for Advanced Study

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

Read more

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

Read more

Nile Green

Nile Green

University of California, Los Angeles

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

Read more

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)

Read more

Sophia Vasalou

Sophia Vasalou

University of Cambridge

Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu’tazilite Ethics
Princeton University Press

Read more

Ussama Makdisi

Ussama Makdisi

Rice University

Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
Cornell University Press

Read more

Marc David Baer

Marc David Baer

University of California, Irvine

Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe
Oxford University Press

Read more

Saba Mahmood

Saba Mahmood

University of California, Berkeley

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
Princeton University Press, 2005

Read more

Heather J. Sharkey

University of Pennsylvania

Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
University of California Press

Read more

Farha Ghannam

Swarthmore College

Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo
University of California Press

Read more

Jonathan Bloom

Boston College

Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World
Yale University Press

Read more

Nadia Abu El-Haj

Columbia University

Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society
University of Chicago Press

Read more

Tayeb El-Hibri

University of Massachusetts

Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate
Cambridge University Press

Read more

Eugene Rogan

St. Antony’s College, Oxford University

Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850–1921
Cambridge University Press

Read more

Stay Connected

MESA offers several ways to stay connected: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, as well as listservs and trusty email notifications. To find out more, please follow the link below.

Connect Now