By SpearIt, author of Muslim Prisoner Litigation: An Unsung American Tradition
“Prison jihad” is a real thing happening in American prisons across the country. While this idea might conjure up all sorts of stereotypical imagery — including bearded, turbaned, militant Muslims, radicaliz...
By Timur Hammond, author of Placing Islam: Geographies of Connection in Twentieth-Century Istanbul
In late June 2023, the building known as Feshane was reopened by the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality as ‘ArtIstanbul,’ a complex consisting of expansive gallery space, a café, meeting ...
UC Press is proud to publish award-winning authors and books across many disciplines. Below are several of our February 2023 award winners. Please join us in celebrating these scholars by sharing the news!
Kaveh Askari
2023 Katherine Singer Kovàcs Book AwardSociety for Cinem...
By Reyhan Durmaz, author of Stories between Christianity and Islam: Saints, Memory, and Cultural Exchange in Late Antiquity and Beyond
We all tell stories to create meaning. A far-gone event in a distant time and place often works as a lens through which we remember the past, interpret...
by David M. Freidenreich, author of Jewish Muslims: How Christians Imagined Islam as the Enemy
Antisemitism is becoming increasingly overt—and so too is its close relative, anti-Judaism. To respond and resist effectively, we need to recognize the differences between these two forms of ...
By Brian Catlos, co-author of The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650–1650
If Medieval Studies, as some say, has a “whiteness problem,” Mediterranean Studies does not. Recentering the narrative of the pre-Modern West on the region of the sea and the lands that surround it b...
By Sahar Aziz, author of The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom
On his first day in office, President Biden repealed the “Muslim Ban,” an executive order issued by Trump on January 27, 2017. This repeal was a welcome development for the hundreds of thousands of Muslim...
This post is part of our Editor Spotlight Series.
For this year’s virtual American Historical Association conference, we connected with UC Press Premodern World History Senior Editor Eric Schmidt to talk about our program and what new projects he’s most excited about. Eric also shar...
This post is part of our #MESA2020 blog series. Learn more at our MESA virtual exhibit.
For this year’s virtual MESA conference, Luke Yarbrough joined us to talk about the new co-edited book Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age and why understanding Islamic conversion is a ...
At this year’s virtual MESA conference, we hope to spread the news of our exciting Berkeley Series in Postclassical Islamic Scholarship. Guided by the series editors, Asad Q. Ahmed and Margaret Larkin, the series will explore Islamicate intellectual history as represented by various d...