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Rachel Bridgewater
@rachelbridgewater.bsky.social
Senior Commissioning Editor for Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh University Press
📖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
📖Now published: @leilarahimibahmany.bsky.social's book on Azeri Turkish literature in 20th-C Iran📖
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October 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
📖New book: Marta Domínguez Díaz explores the cultural identity of the Andalusian community in post-revolutionary Tunisia📖
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September 3, 2025 at 10:23 AM
📖Just published: a collected volume on the Islamic tradition and analytic epistemology, edited by Safaruk Chowdhury and @ramonharvey.bsky.social📖

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September 3, 2025 at 10:17 AM
📖New book! Housni Alkhateeb Shehada reveals what the inscriptions of al-Hakim mosque tell us about Fatimid ideology and propaganda📖
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August 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
📖Just published by EUP in partnership with @royalasiaticsoc.bsky.social: the first English translation of Muʿīnī Juvainī's Nigāristān, a Persian moral miscellany.📖

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July 4, 2025 at 8:48 AM
📚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📚
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June 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
⚡Just published, and 40% off until 24 July: Hussein Ali Abdulsater's book on al-Jahiz and the Epistemists⚡
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June 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
📖New book: Reem Bailony's transnational study of the Syrian Revolt of 1925-1927📖
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June 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
📖Just published: Kameliya N. Atanasova's book on Bursevi and Ottoman Sufism📖
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June 19, 2025 at 9:46 AM
📖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📖
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June 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
🎉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🎉
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June 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
📖Just published: Daisy Livingston's book on the archival history of the Mamluk sultanate of Cairo📖
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June 16, 2025 at 1:58 PM
📖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!)
June 16, 2025 at 11:47 AM
📖New book: Masayuki Ueno on the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and its non-Muslim subjects, with a focus on the Armenians of Istanbul.📖
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May 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
📖Just published, and available Open Access!: Torsten Hylén's analysis of the Karbala Story.📖 Find out more or read the ebook at
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May 1, 2025 at 7:47 AM
🏆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....
April 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
📗Just published: a collection of new essays on Iran's modern history📗 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-politic...
April 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
March 13, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Two new paperbacks in the Classical Islamic History and Culture series:
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March 13, 2025 at 11:46 AM