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Rachel Bridgewater
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Senior Commissioning Editor for Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh University Press
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📖New book! An examination of diverse approaches to corruption in the #Ottoman Empire, edited by Boğaç A. Ergene and Cengiz Kırlı📖
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November 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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📖Now published: @leilarahimibahmany.bsky.social's book on Azeri Turkish literature in 20th-C Iran📖
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-azeri-t...
Book cover: Azeri Turkish Narratives in 20th-Century Iran, by Leila Rahimi Bahmany, in the Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World series
October 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Definitely not a coincidence @kristofdhulster.bsky.social 😉

📖See Kristof's new book at edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-ottoman...
kristofdhulster.bsky.social Kristof D'hulster @kristofdhulster.bsky.social · Oct 1
Either coincidence or a very attentive publisher... The author copies of my attempt at translating two #Ottoman texts on 16th-century #poetics arrived at my doorstep right on #InternationalTranslationDay!
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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🏆Excited to announce that Sara's book has also won the PHF-ASPS Book Award!👏
rachelbridgewater.bsky.social Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · Apr 28
🏆Congratulations to Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi for getting an honourable mention at the IJIA Book Awards for her book 'Emotion, Mission, Architecture'! 🏆 Available in paperback at edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-emotion....
Book cover: Emotion, Mission, Architecture, by Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi
September 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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📖New book: Marta Domínguez Díaz explores the cultural identity of the Andalusian community in post-revolutionary Tunisia📖
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-tunisia...
Book cover: Tunisia's Andalusians: The Cultural Identity of a North African Minority, by Marta Dominguez Diaz
September 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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📖Just published: a collected volume on the Islamic tradition and analytic epistemology, edited by Safaruk Chowdhury and @ramonharvey.bsky.social📖

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Image of book cover: Analytic Islamic Epistemology, Critical Debates.
September 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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📖New book! Housni Alkhateeb Shehada reveals what the inscriptions of al-Hakim mosque tell us about Fatimid ideology and propaganda📖
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-al-haki...
Book cover: Al-Hakim Mosque: Religion and Propaganda in Fatimid Egypt, by Housni Shehada
August 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Great to catch up with @arezouazad.bsky.social at #IMC2025 and get inordinately excited about flyers for the new Islamicate East series. Who doesn't love a flyer??
July 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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📖Just published by EUP in partnership with @royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social: the first English translation of Muʿīnī Juvainī's Nigāristān, a Persian moral miscellany.📖

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-pic...
Book cover image - The Picture Gallery (Nigaristan): A Persian Moral Miscellany, edited by Gregory Maxwell Bruce
July 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Looking forward to #IMC2025 next week! Come by our stand to browse/buy our (very discounted) books or to talk publishing 📚🏰⚔️👑🕌🪕🦅🍺
imc-leeds.bsky.social International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · May 28
We're looking forward to welcoming Edinburgh University Press back to #IMC2025! 😁 Visit their Bookfair stand during the congress to browse their fantastic collection of books!🎉 Why not visit www.euppublishing.com or www.linkedin.com/company/edin... and x.com/EdinburghUP

#MedievalSky #SkyStorians
A smiling Edinburgh University Press Exhibitor stood behind their stall covered in books
June 30, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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📚Now in paperback: Hamid Keshmirshekan's book on Iranian Art from the mid-20th C to the present, and a volume of essays by Bernard Heyberger on Middle Eastern Christianity, newly translated into English📚
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-art...
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-middle-...
June 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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🏛️New Ancient History paperbacks!🏛️
helenaheald.bsky.social Helena Heald @helenaheald.bsky.social · Jun 16
Lovely clutch of paperbacks out this month! Featuring:
🚶Sasanian settlement patterns
♀️Feminist epistemological frameworks
⚔️ Toxic masculinity
🏘️Byzantine social structure
Photo of a stack of four books on a desk, their spines facing outwards so their titles can be read: Socioeconomic Transformation in the Sasanian Empire, Believing Ancient Women, Toxic Masculinity in the Ancient World and Social Stratification in Late Byzantium
June 19, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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⚡Just published, and 40% off until 24 July: Hussein Ali Abdulsater's book on al-Jahiz and the Epistemists⚡
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-al-ja-i...
June 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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📖New book: Reem Bailony's transnational study of the Syrian Revolt of 1925-1927📖
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-syria-s...
Book cover image: Syria's Transnational Rebellion, by Reem Bailony
June 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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📖Just published: Kameliya N. Atanasova's book on Bursevi and Ottoman Sufism📖
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sufism-...
Cover image: Sufism and Power in the Ottoman Empire, by Kameliya Atanasova
June 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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📖Hot off the press: Nicolas Trépanier's book on how travellers, urban elites and peasants experienced rural Anatolia in a time of transition from Byzantine to Muslim rule📖
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-experie...
Book cover: Nicolas Trepanier's Experiencing the Landscapes of Medieval Anatolia
June 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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🎉New book and series! Sana Chavoshian's Women, Martyrs and Stones in Iran’s Post-War Politics - the first book in Karen Ruffle and Babak Rahimi's Studies in Shi’i Materiality series🎉
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-m...
Cover image for Sana Chavoshian's Women, Martyrs and Stones in Iran's Post-War Politics
June 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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📖Just published: Daisy Livingston's book on the archival history of the Mamluk sultanate of Cairo📖
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-managin...
Book cover of Daisy Livingston's Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo
June 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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📖New book from EUP/The Gibb Memorial Trust: Majid Daneshgar provides an edition and translation of Sayf Zafar's Durr al-Majalis and traces the text's transmission and influence across the Muslim World📖
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-persian...
(Thank you @cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp for the image!)
A photo of copies of Majid Daneshgar's book on a desk in a library
June 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Happening this Friday! @edinburghup.bsky.social
simonwfuchs.bsky.social Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · May 19
Please join us on Friday, May 30, at 5.30pm UK time for the online book launch of our edited volume "Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa"!

Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/utopianism...
#Utopias #MiddleEast #Utopianism
May 27, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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New on the blog - Masayuki Ueno on the Ottoman millet system and his new book.
euppublishingblog.com/2025/05/08/b...
Burying The Millet System | Edinburgh University Press
Masayuki Ueno re-evaluates how the Ottoman Empire managed religious minorities from the early days of the empire to the nineteenth century.
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May 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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🗓️ Mark your calendars! It's nearly time to join the editors of Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa for the launch of this groundbreaking new volume.

📍 Online
🕔 5pm, Friday 30 May

Find out more 👉 edin.ac/4mcxauI
May 14, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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🎉After 10 years, the Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity series is now complete!🎉https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-edinburgh-companions-to-global-christianity
May 1, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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📖New book: Masayuki Ueno on the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and its non-Muslim subjects, with a focus on the Armenians of Istanbul.📖
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-managin...
Book cover: Managing Religious Diversity in the Ottoman Empire, by Masayuki Ueno
May 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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📖Just published, and available Open Access!: Torsten Hylén's analysis of the Karbala Story.📖 Find out more or read the ebook at
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-kar...
May 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM