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 Eastern and Islamic studies. On occasion the award has been shared by two authors. Named after the scholar Albert Hourani

Albert Hourani

-Life and career:Hourani was born in Manchester, England, the son of Soumaya Rassi and Fadlo Issa Hourani, immigrants from Marjeyoun in what is now South Lebanon. His brothers were George Hourani and Cecil Hourani. His family had converted from Greek Orthodoxy...

, the award was first given in 1991, to Abraham Marcus. Winners include Michael Cook

Michael Cook (historian)

Michael Allan Cook is an English-Scottish historian and scholar of Islamic history. He has co-authored a book with Patricia Crone, notably Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World....

 and Rashid Khalidi

Rashid Khalidi

Rashid Ismail Khalidi , born 1948, a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East, is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University, and director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.-Family, education and...

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Albert Hourani Book Award Winners

• 2010 - Benjamin Claude Brower, "A Desert Named Peace: The Violence of France's Empire in the Algerian Sahara, 1844-1902" (Columbia University Press)
• 2009 - Sophia Vasalou, Moral Agents and Their Deserts: The Character of Mu'tazilite Ethics (Princeton University Press)
• 2008 - Marc David Baer, Honored by the Glory of Islam: Conversion and Conquest in Ottoman Europe (Oxford University Press)
• 2008 - Ussama Makdisi, Artillery of Heaven: American Missionaries and the Failed Conversion of the Middle East (Cornell University Press)
• 2007 - Leor Halevi, Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society (Columbia University Press)
• 2007 - Jessica Winegar, Creative Reckonings: The Politics of Art and Culture in Contemporary Egypt (Stanford University Press)
• 2006 - Rudi Matthee, The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 (Princeton University Press)
• 2005 - Robert R. Bianchi, Guests of God: Pilgrimage and Politics in the Islamic World (Oxford University Press)
• 2004 - Leslie Peirce
  Leslie P. Peirce
  Leslie P. Peirce is a professor in history. Her research interests include early modern history of the Ottoman Empire, gender, law, and society. She received her B.A. in History from Harvard College, her M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, and her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies...
  
  , Morality Tales: Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab (University of California Press)
• 2003 - Jonathan P. Berkey
  Jonathan Berkey
  Dr. Jonathan Porter Berkey is Professor of History at Davidson College.He graduated from Williams College, and from Princeton University with a Ph.D.He has become one of the most respected scholars of the history of Islam and the Middle East.-Awards:...
  
  , The Formation of Islam: Religion and Society in the Near East, 600-1800 (Cambridge University Press)
• 2002 - Nadia Abu El-Haj, Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society
  Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society
  Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society is a 2001 book by Nadia Abu El Haj based on her doctoral thesis for Duke University...
  
  (University of Chicago Press)
• 2002 - Gershon Shafir and Yoav Peled, Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship (Cambridge University Press)
• 2001 - Michael Cook
  Michael Cook (historian)
  Michael Allan Cook is an English-Scottish historian and scholar of Islamic history. He has co-authored a book with Patricia Crone, notably Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World....
  
  , Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought (Cambridge University Press)
• 2000 - Eugene Rogan, Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850–1921 (Cambridge University Press)
• 1999 - Susan Slyomovics, The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (University of Pennsylvania Press)
• 1998 - Kiren Aziz Chaudhry, The Price of Wealth: Economies and Institutions in the Middle East (Cornell University Press)
• 1998 - Marsha Pripstein Posusney, Labor and the State in Egypt:Workers, Unions, and Economic Restructuring (Columbia University Press)
• 1997 - Rashid I. Khalidi, Palestinian Identity: The Construction of Modern National Consciousness (Columbia University Press)
• 1997 - Andrew Shryock, Nationalism and Genealogical Imagination: Oral History and Textual Authority in Tribal Jordan (University of California Press)
• 1996 - Gülrü Neçipoglü, The Topkapi Scroll—Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities)
• 1995 - Devin DeWeese
  Devin Deweese
  Devin Deweese is a professor of Islamic and Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.He received his PhD in 1985 at Indiana University, and since then has continued to do research on Central Asian Islam, particularly Sufism and its political and social dimensions...
  
  , Islamization and Native Religion in the Golden Horde: Baba Tukles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition (Penn State Press)
• 1994 - Richard M. Eaton, The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204–1760 (University of California Press)
• 1994 - Chibli Mallat
  Chibli Mallat
  Chibli Mallat is a human rights lawyer and a former candidate for presidency in Lebanon.-Career:In his law practice, he is best known for bringing the case of Victims of Sabra and Shatila v...
  
  , The Renewal of Islamic Law (Cambridge University Press)
• 1993 - Brinkley Messick, The Calligraphic State: Textual Domination and History in a Muslim Society (University of California Press)
• 1991 - Abraham Marcus, The Middle East on the Eve of Modernity: Aleppo in the Eighteenth Century (Columbia University Press)