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📖Just published: David Cook's study of post-Umayyad Syria, based on Ibn ꜤAsākir’s Tā’rīkh madīnat Dimashq (History of the City of Damascus)📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-syria-d...

📚New paperbacks! On the begams and state-making in early colonial India, on the medieval Persian poet Sa‘di of Shiraz, and on medieval Islamic political theory📚 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w... edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-lyrics-... edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-bir...

📖New book by Waleed Rikab, offering a comprehensive discussion of Islamic apocalyptic and messianic thought in the 20thC Middle East📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-islamic...

📖New book: Sovereignty in Iran, edited by @shabnamholliday.bsky.social, examining sovereignties as a plural concept from Ancient Iran to the Islamic Republic📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-soverei...

📖Just published: F. Redhwan Karim's comprehensive analysis of how the Qur’an envisions gender relations📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-gender-...

📖New book! Edited by John-Paul Ghobrial, Michael A. Reynolds, Christian C. Sahner & Jack Tannous, it reimagines the history of the region by integrating Christian experiences and sources📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-christi...

🆕Check out our blog for a Q&A with @balabbas.bsky.social about his new book🆕 euppublishingblog.com/2026/05/05/q...

Q&A with Belal Abu-Alabbas, author of Al-Bukhārī - Edinburgh University Press BlogBelal Abu-Alabbas explores the making of the first comprehensive critical biography of Muhammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī.euppublishingblog.com

📖New book in @ramonharvey.bsky.social's Islamic Scripture and Theology series: @balabbas.bsky.social's biography of al-Bukhari📖

📚Check out the latest paperbacks in our Ottoman series!📚: edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-edinb...

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...

Q&A: The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids - Edinburgh University Press BlogTales of courtly intrigue, moral testing, romance and reversals of fortune from a rare Persian manuscript…euppublishingblog.com

📚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...

🎉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...