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Rachel Bridgewater

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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

Rachel Bridgewater

@rachelbridgewater.bsky.social

📖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

Rachel Bridgewater

@rachelbridgewater.bsky.social

📖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

Rachel Bridgewater

@rachelbridgewater.bsky.social

📖Just published: a collected volume on the Islamic tradition and analytic epistemology, edited by Safaruk Chowdhury and @ramonharvey.bsky.social📖

edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-analyti...

Image of book cover: Analytic Islamic Epistemology, Critical Debates.

September 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM

Rachel Bridgewater

@rachelbridgewater.bsky.social

📖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

Rachel Bridgewater

@rachelbridgewater.bsky.social

📖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

Rachel Bridgewater

@rachelbridgewater.bsky.social

📚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...
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June 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM

Rachel Bridgewater

@rachelbridgewater.bsky.social

⚡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

Rachel Bridgewater

@rachelbridgewater.bsky.social

📖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

Rachel Bridgewater

@rachelbridgewater.bsky.social

📖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

Rachel Bridgewater

@rachelbridgewater.bsky.social

📖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

Rachel Bridgewater

@rachelbridgewater.bsky.social

🎉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

Rachel Bridgewater

@rachelbridgewater.bsky.social

📖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

Rachel Bridgewater

@rachelbridgewater.bsky.social

📖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

Rachel Bridgewater

@rachelbridgewater.bsky.social

📖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

Rachel Bridgewater

@rachelbridgewater.bsky.social

📖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

Rachel Bridgewater

@rachelbridgewater.bsky.social

🏆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....