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Each
year the Board of Directors of MEM offers a prize of $250 for the best
graduate student paper on a medieval topic at the annual Middle East Studies
Association meeting. The winner is announced at the annual business
meeting of MEM, held in conjunction with MESA
. Although modest in amount, it is
hoped that this award will encourage graduate students with an interest
in the medieval period to attend the conference. One need not be a member
of MEM to be considered for this prize. Graduate Students who are
scheduled to present a paper on a medieval topic at MESA and who
wish to have their contributions considered for the MEM prize should submit
a copy of their paper (please check rules of submission) to MEM’s secretary Antoine Barrout (University of Maryland), email: aborrut@umd.edu.
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Winners
of the MEM Graduate Student Prize:
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1995
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Paul M. Cobb (University of Chicago),
“Al-Mutawakkil in Damascus, 244/858.”
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1996
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Marianne Engle Cameron
(University of Chicago), “Sayf at First: A
Comparison of Conquest Narratives in Ibn Asakir's Recension of Sayf b. ‘Umar with al-Tabari's Recension of Sayf.”
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1997
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Maya Yazigi (UCLA), “Reaching a Viable Truce: Medieval Muslim Women and the
Art of Compromise.”
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1998
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Amina A. Elbendary (American
University in Cairo), “The
Sultan, the Tyrant and the Hero: Changing Medieval Perceptions of al-Zahir
Baybars.”
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1999
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Oya Pancaraglu (Harvard University), “Socializing Medicine: Illustrations of the Kitab
al-Diryaq.”
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2000
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Deborah G. Tor (Harvard University),
“Historical Representations of Ya‘qub ibn al-Layth: A Reappraisal.”
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2001
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Dagmar A. Riedel (Indiana University),
“Of God and Sultans: Leadership and Royal Ethics
in the Rahat al-Sudur by Rawandi (fl. 1180-1200).”
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2002
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Tamer El-Leithy (Princeton University), “Between Assimilation and Resistance: New Evidence on
Conversion Practices in Mamluk Society.”
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2003
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Elizabeth Alexandrin (McGill University), “Sibt Ibn al-Jawzi’s Mir’ât al-Zamân and the Basâsîrî Débâcle.”
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2004
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Behnam Sadeghi (Princeton University), “How Law does not Mirror Values: Two Case Studies in Women
in the Public Space.”
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2005
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Uriel Simonsohn (Princeton University), “Muslim Intervention or Non-Muslim Appeal: The Question
of Communal Demarcation in Medieval Islam.”
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2006
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Michael E. Pregill (Columbia University), “ Ahab, Bar Kokhba, Muhammad, and the Lying Spirit: Prophetic Discourse before and after the Rise of Islam.”
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2007
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Christine D. Baker (University of Texas, Austin), “Rebellion and the Rise of the Fatimids: The Crafting of Foundational Narratives.”
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2008-2010
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Not Awarded
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2011 |
Mushegh Asatryan (Yale University), “Bankers and Politics: 8th Century Kufan Moneychangers and Their Role in the Shi`a Community.”
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2012
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Majied Robinson (Edinburgh University), “The Concubine in Statistical Context: A Prosopographical Analysis of the Arab Genealogical Tradition.”
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Rachel Friedman (University of California, Berkeley), “Religious Longing in the Ghazal of an Andalusi Muslim Convert.”
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