New on the blog - Pejman Firoozbakhsh and @arezouazad.bsky.social on the enduring fascination of the Barmakids, and on what this newly translated story cycle has to tell us. #MedievalSky euppublishingblog.com/2026/04/07/q...

📚Now published!: Han Hsien Liew's book on preaching and emotions in medieval Islamic political thought, and Uriel Simonsohn & Luke Yarbrough's edited volume on cultural brokerage in premodern Islamic societies📚 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-preachi... edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-cultura...

🎉Just published, and launching the Critical Approaches to Arabic Historiography series edited by Jo Van Steenbergen and Mustafa Banister: Antoine Borrut's book on astrology and the construction of historical knowledge in early Islam🎉 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-astrolo...

📚 New on the blog! @arezouazad.bsky.social rediscovers Bamiyan’s medieval archives, revealing a diverse, literate and interconnected Islamicate society in Afghanistan. Have a read:

Join us on Tuesday 3 March, @oxlifelonglearning.bsky.social, to launch new books in @edinburghup.bsky.social series The Islamicate East: New Approaches to Texts and History, with Arezou Azad & an expert panel. Book your free ticket now: bit.ly/Oxfordbooklaunch #booklaunch #skystorians #medievalsky

🎉The first 3 books have now published in The Islamicate East series, edited by @arezouazad.bsky.social, Hugh Kennedy and Teresa Bernheimer🎉 @invisibleeast.bsky.social Find out more at edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-the-i...

📖Introducing the latest book in @ramonharvey.bsky.social's series: Suleyman Dost on the origins of the Qur'an📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-before-...

📖Just published: Robert Haddad's study of an 18th-C schism that continues to influence the shape of Middle Eastern Christianity today. Sadly, the author passed away before the book went to press.📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-mel...

📖Out now: Jaan Islam's new book on Jihadi-Salafism📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-pre...

📖Just published: Hamid Dabashi's monograph on the revolutionary culture of 1970s Tehran📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-sub...

📚 Newly republished: Reynold A. Nicholson’s authoritative 8-volume translation and edition of Rúmí’s magnum opus, reissued with a new Foreword by Alan Williams 📚https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/reynold-a-nicholson

📚Now available, in a reissued edition: E.J.W. Gibb's classic 6-volume History of Ottoman Poetry, with a new Foreword by Christine Woodhead 📚 edinburghuniversitypress.com/e-j-w-gibb_2...

📖Hot off the press: Sara Farhan's book on the history of medical education in Iraq📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-medical...

Our #StAndrewsDay sale is live! We're sharing the celebrations with you by offering 50% off all published and pre-order books over the weekend! Enjoy! https://edin.ac/32O7hNr

📖New book! An examination of diverse approaches to corruption in the #Ottoman Empire, edited by Boğaç A. Ergene and Cengiz Kırlı📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-corrupt...

📖Now published: @leilarahimibahmany.bsky.social's book on Azeri Turkish literature in 20th-C Iran📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-azeri-t...

Definitely not a coincidence @kristofdhulster.bsky.social 😉 📖See Kristof's new book at edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-ottoman...

🏆Excited to announce that Sara's book has also won the PHF-ASPS Book Award!👏

📖New book: Marta Domínguez Díaz explores the cultural identity of the Andalusian community in post-revolutionary Tunisia📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-tunisia...

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

📖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...

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??

📖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...

Looking forward to #IMC2025 next week! Come by our stand to browse/buy our (very discounted) books or to talk publishing 📚🏰⚔️👑🕌🪕🦅🍺

📚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-...

🏛️New Ancient History paperbacks!🏛️

⚡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...

📖New book: Reem Bailony's transnational study of the Syrian Revolt of 1925-1927📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-syria-s...

📖Just published: Kameliya N. Atanasova's book on Bursevi and Ottoman Sufism📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-sufism-...

📖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...

🎉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...

📖Just published: Daisy Livingston's book on the archival history of the Mamluk sultanate of Cairo📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-managin...

📖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!)

Happening this Friday! @edinburghup.bsky.social

New on the blog - Masayuki Ueno on the Ottoman millet system and his new book. euppublishingblog.com/2025/05/08/b...

🗓️ 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

🎉After 10 years, the Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity series is now complete!🎉https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-edinburgh-companions-to-global-christianity

📖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...

📖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...

🏆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....

📗Just published: a collection of new essays on Iran's modern history📗 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-politic...

And shiny new paperbacks from our Ancient History & Classics list! (Not my list anymore, but I couldn't resist.) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-theocri... edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-late-ro... edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-los... edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-junian-...

Two new paperbacks in the Classical Islamic History and Culture series: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-medieva... edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-cou...

Now out in paperback: the first book in the Encounters in the Middle East and Asia series. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-human-a...

Now out in paperback!

📖 Just published! Mehmet Polatel's book on the Armenian land question in transnational context 📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-armenia... @edinburghup.bsky.social

📖Hot off the press!: a new history of Iranian oil nationalisation from below, by @mattinbiglari.bsky.social 📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-nationa... @edinburghup.bsky.social