Simon O"Meara awarded prestigious Iran World Book Award
30 March 2022
We are thrilled to announce that Dr Simon O"Meara - Senior Lecturer in the History of Architecture & Archaeology of the Islamic Middle East - has received a prestigious award for his recent publication 'The Ka’ba Orientations: Readings in Islam’s Ancient House' (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). This landmark monograph is, remarkably, the first book-length exploration of the most sacred site of Islam, the Kaʿba, in a Western language. Each chapter pursues a different aspect of the Kaʿba, presenting new findings and arguments with extensive illustrations that include a number of rarely reproduced images.
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The annual Islamic Republic of Iran's World Book Award is given to the 4-5 best books in Islamic studies or Iranian studies published in any language outside Iran in the year covered by the award - 2020 in this case. Top publications in different categories of the 39th Iran’s Book of the Year Awards were honored during a special ceremony at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall on Tuesday March 15th 2022. In each category, two books were selected as winners and authors received their awards from President Ebrahim Raisi.