Middle East Studies

Faiz Ahmed, assistant professor of history, is 2018 winner of the John F. Richards Prize

January 14, 2019

Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires (Harvard Univ. Press, 2017)

Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires (Harvard Univ. Press, 2017) by Faiz Ahmed, assistant professor of history at Brown University, has received the Richards Prize at the American Historical Association’s 133rd Annual Meeting. Presented annually by the AHA, the award honors the best book in South Asian history as selected by a prize review committee of AHA members.

Learn more about the American Historical Association (AHA).