Fred Donner (University of Chicago) - "The Development of Early Islamic Political Terminology"
Jonathan Brown (Georgetown University) - "Abiding Stereotypes of the Prophet Muhammad in the Medieval and Modern West"
Omid Safi (Duke University) - "Memories of Muhammad"
Nile Green (UCLA) - "Bombay Islam: The Religious Economy of the West Indian Ocean"
John Kiser - "Commander of the Faithful: The Life and Times of Emir Abd El-Kader"
Mehdi Aminrazavi (University of Mary Washington) - "The Wine of Wisdom: The Life, Poetry, and Philosophy of Omar al-Khayyam"
Michael Laffan (Princeton University) - "Indonesian Islam: A History in the Making"
Ahmed El Shamsy (University of Chicago) - "Islamic Law in Social Context: The Case of Early Islamic Egypt"
Kazuo Morimoto (Tokyo University) - "Kinsfolk of the Prophet in Muslim Societies: A Study of Sayyids and Sharifs"
Huseyin Yilmaz (George Mason University) - "Ottoman Europe or Europe's Ottomans? The Politics of Defining the Self and the Other"
Seyfi Kenan (Marmara University & Koç University-Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations) - "Education, Administrative Discipline, and the Rise of the Modern State in the Ottoman Empire"