Albert Hourani Book AwardHonorable Mention

Given by Middle East Studies Association

27 Works 1,091 Books 3 Reviews
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 show more long and distinguished career as teacher and mentor. The award is presented by the Middle East Studies Association.


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Stages:
All, Winner (23), Co-Winner (18), Honorable Mention (27)
Years:
All, 2023 (1), 2022 (1), 2021 (2), 2020 (1), 2019 (1), 2018 (1), 2016 (1), 2005 (2), 2004 (2), 2003 (2), 2002 (1), 2000 (3), 1999 (1), 1998 (1), 1996 (1), 1995 (1), 1994 (1), 1993 (3), 1991 (1)

Honorable Mention 27

WorkYear
Pinelandia: An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire (Volume 8) (Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century) by Nomi Stone2023
Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands by Helen Pfeifer2022
Polymaths of Islam: Power and Networks of Knowledge in Central Asia by James Pickett2021
How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey by Caterina Scaramelli2021
What is 'Islamic' Art?: Between Religion and Perception by Wendy M.K. Shaw2020
The Making of the Medieval Middle East: Religion, Society, and Simple Believers by Jack Tannous2019
Letters of Light: Arabic Script in Calligraphy, Print, and Digital Design by J.R. Osborn2018
Muslim Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Empire by Seema Alavi2016
Politics of Piety by Saba Mahmood2005
The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire by Gülru Necipoğlu2005
Resurrecting Empire by Rashid Khalidi2004
Confronting the Occupation: Work, Education, and Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp by Maya Rosenfeld2004
Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo by Farha Ghannam2003
Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by Heather J. Sharkey2003
Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World by Jonathan Bloom2002
Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land since 1948 (Honorable Mention for the Albert Hourani Award, Middle Eastern Studies Association) by Meron Benvenisti2000
Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) by Tayeb El-Hibri2000
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives by Carole Hillenbrand2000
Social Origins Of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse by Mohammed Bamyeh1999
Sultan Ibrahim Mirza's Haft Awrang: A Princely Manuscript from Sixteenth-Century Iran by Marianna Shreve Simpson1998
Lords of the Lebanese Marches: Violence & Narrative in an Arab Society (Society & Culture in the Modern Middle East) by Michael Gilsenan1996
Rebel and Saint by Julia A. Clancy-Smith1995
Arabic Historical Thought in the Classical Period by Tarif Khalidi1994
The Pasha's Peasants: Land, Society and Economy in Lower Egypt, 1740-1858 by Kenneth M. Cuno1993
Waqf in Central Asia: Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine, 1480-1889 by R. D. McChesney1993
Romancing the real : folklore and ethnographic representation in North Africa by Sabra J. Webber1993
"Peaks of Yemen I Summon": Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemeni Tribe by Steven C. Caton1991

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