The winners of the 2000 Albert Hourani Book Award were announced on November 18, 2000, at the awards ceremony at MESA’s annual meeting in Orlando, Florida.

2000 Albert Hourani Book Award

Winner

Eugene I. Rogan
St. Antony’s College, Oxford University
Frontiers of the State in the
Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850-1921

(
Cambridge University Press, January 2000)

Honorable Mention

Meron Benvenisti
Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of
the Holy Land Since 1948
(
University of California  Press, January 2000)

Tayeb El-Hibri
University of Massachusetts

Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography:
Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the
Abbasid Caliphate
(
Cambridge University Press, December 1999)

Carole Hillenbrand
The Crusades
(
Edinburgh University Press, July 1999)