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Awards

The following is the list of previous recipients of the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award since its inception:

1996
First Prize:
   Djalal Khaleghi Motlagh, Critical edition of Shahnameh, 1988-.
 
Honorable Mentions:
   C. E. Bosworth, History of the Saffarids of Sistan and the Maliks of Nimruz, 1994.
   Farhad Daftary, The Assassin Legends: Myths of Isma’ilis, 1994.

1997
First Prize:
   Badr-ol Zaman Gharib, Farhang-e Soghd-Farsi-Englisi [Sogdian Dictionary], 1995.
 
Honorable Mention:
   Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Recasting Persian Poetry: Scenarios of Poetic Modernity in Iran, 1995.

2004
First Prize:
   Maria E. Subtelny, Le monde est un jardin: Aspects d l’histoire culturelle de l’Iran medieval, 2002.

Honorable Mentions:
   Kathryn Babayan, Mystics, Monarchs and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran, 2002.
    Franklin D. Lewis, Rumi: Past and Present, East and West, 2000.

2006
First Prize:
   Rudi Matthee, The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900,  2005.

Honorable Mentions:
    David J. Roxburgh. The Persian Album 1400-1600:  From Dispersal to Collection, 2005.

    Étienne de la Vaissière, Histoire des marchands sogdiens, 2nd ed., Bibliothèque de l’Institut des hautes études chinoises XXXII, 2004 (Transl. by James Ward, Sogdian Traders: A history, Handbuch der Orientalistik VIII: Central Asia, 10: Sogdian traders, Leiden and Boston, 2005.)

 

 

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