Albert Hourani Book Award Recipients, 1991-2005

Albert Hourani Book Award

Award Recipients—1991-2008

2008	Winners	Marc David Baer Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (Oxford University Press) Ussama Makdisi Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (Cornell University Press)
2007	Winners	Leor Halevi Muhammad's Grave: Death RItes and the Making of Islamic Society (Columbia University Press) Jessica Winegar Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt (Stanford University Press)
2006	Winner	Rudi Matthee The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 (Princeton University Press).
2005	Winner	Robert R. Bianchi Guests of God: Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World (Oxford University Press)
	Honorable Mentions	Saba Mahmood Politics of Piety (Princeton University Press) Gulru Necipoglu The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton University Press)
2004	Winner	Leslie Peirce, University of California, Berkeley Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab (University of California Press)
	Honorable Mentions	Rashi Khalidi, Columbia University Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America's Perilous Path in the Middle East (Beacon Press) Maya Rosenfeld Confronting the Occupation: Work, Education, & Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp (Stanford University Press)
2003	Winner	Jonathan P. Berkey, Davidson College The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 Cambridge University Press
	Honorable Mentions	Farha Ghannam, Swarthmore College Remaking the Modern: Spade, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo (University of California Press) Heather J. Sharkey, University of Pennsylvania Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (University of California Press)
2002	Winners	Nadia Abu El-Haj, Columbia University Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society (University of Chicago Press) Gershon Shafir, University of California, San Diego and Yoav Peled, Tel Aviv University Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship (Cambridge University Press)
	Honorable Mention	Jonathan M. Bloom, Boston College Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World (Yale University Press)
2001	Winner	Michael Cook, Princeton University Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought, (Cambridge University Press)
2000	Winner	Eugene Rogan, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850–1921 ( Cambridge University Press)
2000	Honorable Mention	Meron Benvenisti Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948 (University of California Press) Tayeb El-Hibri, University of Massachusetts Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate (Cambridge University Press) Carole Hillenbrand The Crusades (Edinburgh University Press)
1999	Winner	Susan Slyomovics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (University of Pennsylvania Press)
1999	Honorable Mention	Mohammed A. Bamyeh, New York University The Social Origins of Islam (University of Minnesota Press)
1998	Winners	Kiren Aziz Chaudhry, University of California, Berkeley The Price of Wealth: Economies and Institutions in the Middle East (Cornell University Press) Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Bryant College Labor and the State in Egypt:Workers, Unions, and Economic Restructuring (Columbia University Press)
1998	Honorable Mention	Marianna Shreve Simpson, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD Sultan Ibrahim Mirza’s Haft Awrang: A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth Century Iran (Yale University Press)
1997	Winners	Rashid I. Khalidi, University of Chicago Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (Columbia 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)
1996	Winner	Gülrü Neçipoglü, Harvard University The Topkapi Scroll—Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities)
	Honorable Mention	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)
1995	Winner	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 Press)
	Honorable Mention	Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800–1904) (University of California Press ) Tarif Khalidi, American University of Beirut Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period (Cambridge University Press)
1994	Winners	Richard M. Eaton, University of Arizona The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760 (University of California Press) Chibli Mallat, University of London The Renewal of Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press)
1993	Winner	Brinkley Messick, University of Michigan The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society (University of California Press)
	Honorable Mentions	Kenneth Cuno, University of Illinois The Pasha’s Peasants: Land, Society, and Economy in Lower Egypt, 1740–1858 (Cambridge University Press) R.D. McChesney, New York University Waqf in Central Asia: Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine (Princeton University Press) Sabra J. Webber, Ohio State University Romancing the Real: Folklore and Ethnographic Representation in North Africa (University of Pennsylvania Press)
1991	Winner	Abraham Marcus, University of Texas at Austin The Middle East on the Eve of Modernity: Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century (Columbia University Press)
	Honorable Mention	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)

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