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 …
Read More >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 …
Read More >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, …
Read More >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 …
Read More >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Aziz, author of The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom On his first day in office, President Biden repealed the “Muslim Ban,” an executive order issued by Trump on …
Read More >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 …
Read More >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 …
Read More >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, …
Read More >by Sean W. Anthony, author of Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam What can modern historians know about the historical figure of the prophet Muhammad? …
Read More >This year’s Ramadan will end on June 14th, marking the end of a month of fasting and the beginning of the celebration of Eid al-Fitr by Muslims worldwide. Dig into the lives …
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