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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

📖Just published! The first English translation of Samipaşazade Sezai's Ottoman anti-slavery novel, translated by Iclal Vanwesenbeeck and Burcu Karahan. Available in paperback for £14.99/19.95 USD📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-adv...

Book cover: Adventures of a Slave Girl: An Ottoman Novel. Edited and translated by Burcu Karahan and Iclal Vanwesenbeeck.

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📖New book in the 'Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt - Studies on Ottoman Sources' series - Thomas Sinclair & Gülçin Tunalı's transliteration, translation and commentary of Mahmut Efendi's history of Athens📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-an-otto...

Book cover: An Ottoman Perception of Greek History: Mahmut Efendi's History of Athens, by Thomas Sinclir and Gülçin Tunalı

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

📚New books in the Ottoman Empire series📚: Kate Dannies on breadwinner soldiers in WW1, Yakoob Ahmed on the ulema and the Ottoman Constitution, and Yavuz Sezer on the rise of libraries, published posthumously thanks to a team of his colleagues and friends❤️ edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-edinb...

3 books covers: Conscripting Breadwinner Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Empire, by Kate Dannies; The Ottoman Ulema and the Quest for an Islamic Constitution, by Yakoob Ahmed; and The Architecture of Bibliophilia, by Yavuz Sezer

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

🎉New book series at EUP! Food and Foodways in the Middle East, North Africa and their Diasporas, edited by Heather Sharkey, and launched by Amir Sayadabdi's ethnographic exploration of food and Iranian diasporic identities in NZ🎉 edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-food-...

Book cover: Food and the Iranian Diaspora: Embodying Nation, Gender and Memory in New Zealand, by Amir Sayadabdi.

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

📚New books in the Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World series!: Amir Parsa on state formation in 18thC Iran, and Touraj Atabaki & Lana Ravandi-Fadai on Iranian political exiles and migrant workers during Stalin's Great Terror📚 edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-edinb...

Two book covers: Imperial Iran in the 18th Century, by M.A.H. Parsa, and Iranian Exiles and Stalin's Great Terror, by Touraj Atabaki and Lana Ravandi-Fadai

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

📖Introducing @asseelalragam.bsky.social's new book on Kuwait's urban transformation in the 20th C📖 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-kuwait-...

Book cover: Asseel al-Ragam, Kuwait and its Hinterland: Land Politics, Imperial Networks and Modern Urban Development.

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

📖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...

Book cover: Syria down to Saladin: Ibn Asakir’s History of the City of Damascus, by David Cook

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

📚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...

2 books covers: Women, Wealth and the State in Early Colonial India, by Nicholas J. Abbott; Lyrics of Life, by Fatemeh Keshavarz; and The Birth and Evolution of Islamic Political Theory, by Gokhan Bacik

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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

Book cover: Islamic Apocalypticism in the 20th Century and Beyond: Society, Politics and Technology in a Century of Change, by Waleed Rikab.

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

📖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...

Book cover: Sovereignty in Iran: Challenges to Eurocentricism from Ancient Iran to the Islamic Republic, edited by Shabnam J. Holliday

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

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

Book cover: Gender Relations in the Qur'an, by F. Redhwan Karim

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

📖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...

Book cover: Christians in Middle Eastern History: Strangers No More

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

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

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

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

4 book covers: Ethnic Cleansing in Western Anatolia, Governing Migration in the Late Ottoman Empire, Hagia Sophia in the Long 19th Century and The Ottoman Canon and the Construction of Arabic and Turkish Literatures.

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

📚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...

Two book covers: Han Hsien Liew, Preaching Pious Rulership in Medieval Islam, and Uriel Simonsohn and Luke Yarbrough, editors, Cultural Brokerage in Premodern Islamic Societies

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

🎉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...

Book cover: Astrology and History in Early Islam: Aligning Heaven and Earth, by Antoine Borrut.

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Invisible East @invisibleeast.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

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

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🎉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...

3 book covers: The Warehouse of Bamiyan, Persian World Histories in the Mongol Era and The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

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

Book cover: Before the Qur'an: Material Sources at the Advent of Muslim Scripture, by Suleyman Dost.

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

📖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...

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

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

Book cover, The Premodern Origins of Jihadi-Salafism, by Jaan S. Islam

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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

Book cover: The Subversive Seventies in Tehran, by Hamid Dabashi, in the Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World series.

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

📚 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

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

📚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...

Book cover: A History of Ottoman Poetry, volume 1, 1300 to 1450

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

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

Book cover: Medical Education and the Making of Iraqi Doctors, 1869 to 1959, by Sara Farhan.

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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

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! edin.ac/32O7hNr

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

📖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...

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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

Book cover: Azeri Turkish Narratives in 20th-Century Iran, by Leila Rahimi Bahmany, in the Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World series

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

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

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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

Book cover: Tunisia's Andalusians: The Cultural Identity of a North African Minority, by Marta Dominguez Diaz

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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

Image of book cover: Analytic Islamic Epistemology, Critical Debates.

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

📖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...

Book cover: Al-Hakim Mosque: Religion and Propaganda in Fatimid Egypt, by Housni Shehada

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

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??

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

📖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...

Book cover image - The Picture Gallery (Nigaristan): A Persian Moral Miscellany, edited by Gregory Maxwell Bruce

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

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

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

📚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-...

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

🏛️New Ancient History paperbacks!🏛️

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

⚡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...

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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

Book cover image: Syria's Transnational Rebellion, by Reem Bailony

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

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

Cover image: Sufism and Power in the Ottoman Empire, by Kameliya Atanasova

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

📖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...

Book cover: Nicolas Trepanier's Experiencing the Landscapes of Medieval Anatolia

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

🎉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...

Cover image for Sana Chavoshian's Women, Martyrs and Stones in Iran's Post-War Politics

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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

Book cover of Daisy Livingston's Managing Paperwork in Mamluk Cairo

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

📖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!)

A photo of copies of Majid Daneshgar's book on a desk in a library

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Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Happening this Friday! @edinburghup.bsky.social

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