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Albert Hourani Book Award

Award Recipients—1991-2006

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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