Honorary Mention for Best Book published in 2007 on a Canadian nautical subject from the Canadian Nautical Research Society."Für Interessierte am arabischen Schiffbau mit Sicherheit eine willkommene Bereicherung, liegt doch mit dieser Studie eine Publikation vor, die nicht nur schiffbautechnische, sondern auch geo-politische Aspekte umfassend und facettenreich darstellt."Thomas Feige Das Logbuch 44. Jg. 2008 H4.Awarded Honourable Mention by The Keith Matthews Prize in 2008 "Rarely do books come along that make such a demontrable contribution to the field of maritime history as Dionisius Agius's Classic Ships of Islam, a work that effectively re-lays the foundation for the study of Muslim shipping in the western Indian Ocean."Lincoln Paine The Northern Mariner/Le Marin du Nord, XVIII.2 (2008), 120-122.

Highly Commended for the Keith Muckelroy Memorial Award 2009, Nautical Archaeology Society."As a reviewer seeking to do full justice to this complex work one would almost have to match Agius word-for-word, so rich is the study in its assessment of sources, the arguments of other scholars, and its overall sweeping contribution to the much-neglected field." Kenneth McPherson, Nautical Archeology 38.1 (2009), 180-182."The book [.] advances our understanding of Islamic material culture as well as social and economic history and offers a fascinating journey into the past, to borrow Agius' heading of Chapter One of his book."Yaacov Lev, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 38 (2011), 391-395."The book [.

] advances our understanding of Islamic material culture as well as social and economic history and offers a fascinating journey into the past [.]. Yaacov Lev, JSAI 38 (2011), 391-395.