Past Winners of the Saidi-Sirjani Book Award

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