Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society

Leor Halevi

May, 2007
Cloth, 416 pages, 7 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13742-3
$38.00 / £26.00

2007 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association

2008 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society

2008 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Analyitcal-Descriptive Studies, American Academy of Religion

Short List—2008 Best First Book in the History of Religions, American Academy of Religion

Long List—Cundill International Prize and Lecture in History at McGill University

Related Subjects

• Islam
• Medieval History
• Middle East Studies

About the Author

A graduate of Princeton, Yale, and Harvard Universities, Leor Halevi is an associate professor at Vanderbilt University. His work has won numerous distinctions, including fellowships from the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. His publications have appeared in Past & Present, History of Religions, The Journal of the History of Ideas, and Speculum. His first book, Muhammad’s Grave, has won three major awards: the Albert Hourani Award, given by the Middle East Studies Association, the Award for Excellence in the category of Analytical-Descriptive studies, given by the American Academy of Religion and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, given by the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

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