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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · Sep 3

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

Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · Apr 28

🏆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....

Book cover: Emotion, Mission, Architecture, by Sara Honarmand Ebrahimi

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · Sep 3

📖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 · Sep 3

📖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 · Aug 1

📖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 · Jul 9

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??

Invisible East @invisibleeast.bsky.social · Jul 9

Our PI @arezouazad.bsky.social was delighted to connect with @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social, the Commissioning Editor of our series with @edinburghup.bsky.social, @imc-leeds.bsky.social this week.

Read all about it! bit.ly/TheIslamicateEast

#imcleeds2025 #medievalsky #skystorian #theislamicateeast

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · Jul 4

📖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 · Jun 30

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

International Medieval Congress Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social · May 28

We're looking forward to welcoming Edinburgh University Press back to #IMC2025! 😁 Visit their Bookfair stand during the congress to browse their fantastic collection of books!🎉 Why not visit www.euppublishing.com or www.linkedin.com/company/edin... and x.com/EdinburghUP

#MedievalSky #SkyStorians

A smiling Edinburgh University Press Exhibitor stood behind their stall covered in books

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · Jun 20

📚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 · Jun 19

🏛️New Ancient History paperbacks!🏛️

Helena Heald @helenaheald.bsky.social · Jun 16

Lovely clutch of paperbacks out this month! Featuring:
🚶Sasanian settlement patterns
♀️Feminist epistemological frameworks
⚔️ Toxic masculinity
🏘️Byzantine social structure

Photo of a stack of four books on a desk, their spines facing outwards so their titles can be read: Socioeconomic Transformation in the Sasanian Empire, Believing Ancient Women, Toxic Masculinity in the Ancient World and Social Stratification in Late Byzantium

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · Jun 19

⚡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 · Jun 19

📖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 · Jun 19

📖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 · Jun 17

📖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 · Jun 17

🎉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 · Jun 16

📖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 · Jun 16

📖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 · May 27

Happening this Friday! @edinburghup.bsky.social

Simon Wolfgang Fuchs @simonwfuchs.bsky.social · May 19

Please join us on Friday, May 30, at 5.30pm UK time for the online book launch of our edited volume "Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa"!

Register here:
www.eventbrite.com/e/utopianism...
#Utopias #MiddleEast #Utopianism

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · May 27

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

Burying The Millet System | Edinburgh University Press

Masayuki Ueno re-evaluates how the Ottoman Empire managed religious minorities from the early days of the empire to the nineteenth century.

euppublishingblog.com

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Edinburgh University Press @edinburghup.bsky.social · May 14

🗓️ 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

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · May 1

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

gracejisunkim.bsky.social @gracejisunkim.bsky.social · Apr 21

@edinburghup.bsky.social celebrates the completion of the Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity series with 10 volumes.

So proud to co-edit Vol. 7, "Christianity in North America"

Order all 10 volumes for your library.

gracek.substack.com/p/edinburgh-...

Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity: Christianity in North America

Edinburgh celebrates the completion of the Edinburgh Companions to Global Christianity series with 10 volumes.

gracek.substack.com

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · May 1

📖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...

Book cover: Managing Religious Diversity in the Ottoman Empire, by Masayuki Ueno

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · May 1

📖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...

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · Apr 28

🏆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....

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · Apr 7

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

Book cover: Political, Social and Cultural History of Modern Iran, edited by Houchang Chehabi

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Rachel Bridgewater @rachelbridgewater.bsky.social · Mar 13

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-...

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