Pre-2010

2009

Malcolm Lyons
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights  (Penguin)

Michael R Fischbach
Jewish Property Claims against Arab Countries  (Columbia University Press)

Ussama Makdisi
Artillery of Heaven  (Cornell University Press)

 

2008

Shelagh Weir
A Tribal Order: Politics and Law in the Mountains of Yemen  (The British Museum Press)

Peter E Pormann and Emilie Savage-Smith 
Medieval Islamic Medicine  (Edinburgh University Press)

Shafique N Virani 
The Ismailis in the Middle Ages  (Oxford University Press)

 

2007

Charles Tripp
Islam and the Moral Economy: The Challenge of Capitalism  (Cambridge University Press)

Sheila Blair 
Islamic Calligraphy  (Edinburgh University Press) 

 

2006

Dionisius Agius
Seafaring in the Arabian Gulf and Oman: The People of the Dhow  (Kegan Paul)

 

2005

Patricia Crone
Medieval Islamic Political Thought  (Edinburgh University Press)

 

2004

A.J. Racy
Making Music in the Arab World  (Cambridge University Press)

 

2003

Naomi Sakr
Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalisation and the Middle East   (IB Tauris)

 

2002

Michael Cook
Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought  (Cambridge University Press)

 

2001

Franklin D. Lewis
Rumi: Past and Present, East and West - The Life, Teachings and Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi  (Allen Lane)

 

2000

Andrew George
The Epic of Gilgamesh: A New Translation  (Allen Lane - The Penguin Press)

Julie Scott Meisami
Persian Historiography to the End of the Twelfth Century  (Edinburgh University Press)

 

1999

Sheila S. Blair
Islamic Inscriptions  (Edinburgh University Press)

 

1998

James Montgomery
The Vagaries of the Qasidah: The Tradition and Practice of Early Arabic Poetry  (Aris & Phillips)

Yazid Sayigh
Armed Struggle and the Search for State: The Palestinian National Movement, 1949-1993  (Oxford University Press)