Albert Hourani Book Award Winners

The Albert Hourani Book Award is a non-fiction book award given by the Middle East Studies Association to the year's most notable book in Middle Easte ...more

Winners

	The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity by Taner Akçam 4.30 avg rating — 60 ratings Albert Hourani Book Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism by Patricia Crone 4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings Albert Hourani Book Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902 by Benjamin Claude Brower 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings Albert Hourani Book Award (2010)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics by Sophia Vasalou 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings Albert Hourani Book Award (2009)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East by Ussama Makdisi 3.89 avg rating — 70 ratings Albert Hourani Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Honored by the Glory of Islam by Marc David Baer 3.53 avg rating — 15 ratings Albert Hourani Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society by Leor Halevi 4.22 avg rating — 18 ratings Albert Hourani Book Award (2007)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	الأمر بالمعروف والنهي عن المنكر في الفكر الإسلامي by Michael A. Cook 4.05 avg rating — 79 ratings Albert Hourani Book Award (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness by Rashid Khalidi 3.94 avg rating — 243 ratings Albert Hourani Book Award (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nationalism and the Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan by Andrew Shryock really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings Albert Hourani Book Award (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Topkapi Scroll -- Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture by Gülru Necipoğlu 4.69 avg rating — 26 ratings Albert Hourani Book Award (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde: Baba Tükles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition by Devin A. Deweese 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings Albert Hourani Book Award (1995)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 by Richard M. Eaton 4.47 avg rating — 81 ratings Albert Hourani Book Award (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Renewal of Islamic Law: Muhammad Baqer As-Sadr, Najaf and the Shi'i International by Chibli Mallat 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings Albert Hourani Book Award (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society by Brinkley Messick 3.75 avg rating — 36 ratings Albert Hourani Book Award (1992)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Middle East on the Eve of Modernity: Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century by Abraham Marcus 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings Albert Hourani Book Award (1991)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars