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)
Albert Hourani Book Award
University of Texas at Austin
Sophia Vasalou
University of Cambridge
Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu’tazilite Ethics
Princeton University Press
Ussama Makdisi
Rice University
Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East
Cornell University Press
Marc David Baer
University of California, Irvine
Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe
Oxford University Press
Jessica Winegar
Temple University
Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt
Rudi Mathee
University of Delaware
The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900
Gülru Necipoğlu
Harvard University
The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire
Princeton University Press, 2005
Saba Mahmood
University of California, Berkeley
Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
Princeton University Press, 2005
Robert R. Bianchi
University of Chicago
Guests of God: Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World
Oxford University Press, 2004
Leslie Peirce
University of California, Berkeley
Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab
University of California Press
Maya Rosenfeld
Hebrew University
Confronting the Occupation: Work, Education, & Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp
Stanford University Press
Rashid I. Khalidi
Columbia University
Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints and America’s Perilous Path in the Middle East
Beacon Press
Heather J. Sharkey
University of Pennsylvania
Living with Colonialism: Nationalism and Culture in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan
University of California Press
Farha Ghannam
Swarthmore College
Remaking the Modern: Space, Relocation, and the Politics of Identity in a Global Cairo
University of California Press
Jonathan P. Berkey
Davidson College
The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800
Cambridge University Press
Jonathan Bloom
Boston College
Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World
Yale University Press
Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peleg
Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship
Cambridge University Press
Nadia Abu El-Haj
Columbia University
Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society
University of Chicago Press
Michael Cook
Princeton University
Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought
Cambridge University 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
University of Edinburgh
The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives
Edinburgh University Press
Meron Benvenisti
Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land Since 1948
University of California Press
Eugene Rogan
St. Antony’s College, Oxford University
Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850–1921
Cambridge University Press
Mohammed A. Bamyeh
New York University
The Social Origins of Islam: Mind, Economy, Discourse
University of Minnesota Press