Religious Studies

Dr. Alyssa Gabbay’s Book Receives Honorable Mention for Latifeh Yarshater Award

Posted on September 12, 2022

Alyssa Gabbay’s book Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima (I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury, 2020) received an Honorable Mention for the Latifeh Yarshater Award from the Association for Iranian Studies. The purpose of the award is to encourage scholarship in Iranian Studies focused on the condition of women in Persian speaking societies and to promote women’s rights in these societies. Gabbay’s book previously received an Honorable Mention for the Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society’s (SERMEISS) Book Prize, awarded for a book of outstanding scholarship in Middle Eastern or Islamic Studies.

Congratulations to Dr. Alyssa Gabbay! Gabbay is a professor of Islamic Studies and the director of the Islamic Studies Minor in the UNCG Religious Studies Department.