Publikationen
Publications and Forthcoming Work
Book
Muslim-Christian Polemics in Safavid Iran. Edinburgh Historical Studies on Iran and the Persian World, 2. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
*Persian translation by Mostafa Namdari Monfared. Tehran: Ḥawza va Dānishgāh [under preparation]
Journal articles
“Some Aspects of Conversion Narratives in Late Safavid Iran and their Circulation: The Case of ‘Alī Akbar Armanī,” Eurasian Studies 15, no. 2 (2017): 350-372.
“Muslim-Christian Polemics and Scriptural Translation in Safavid Iran: ʿAli Qoli Jadid al-Eslām and his Interlocutors,” Iranian Studies 50, no. 2 (2017): 247-269.
Book Chapters
“The Iḥqāq al-ḥaqq of Qāżī Nūrullāh Shūshtarī (d. 1610).” In The Oxford Handbook of Shi‘i Islam, edited by Ahab Bdaiwi and Sajjad H. Rizvi. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [under contract; under preparation]
“Agency and Fatalism in the Judeo-Persian Kitāb-i sar guzasht-i Kāshān.” In Recovering Lost Voices, The Role and Depiction of Persianate Subalterns during the Safavid and Afsharid Periods, edited by Andrew Newman. Berlin: Gerlach [in press, tentative publication date: late 2021].
[co-authored with Víctor de Castro León] “The Transformation of Idrīsī’s Nuzhat al-Mushtaq in the Works of ‘Alī al-Sharafī of Sfax (d. after 1579).” In Concepts and Practices of Translation in the Early Modern Period (Early Modern Translation Cultures Vol. 2), edited by Peter Burschel, Regina Toepfer, Jörg Wesche. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2021. [under review; tentative publication date: late 2021 or early 2022]
[co-authored with Víctor de Castro León] “ʿAlī al-Sharafīʼs 1551 Atlas – A Construct Full of Riddles.” In Concepts and Practices of Translation in the Early Modern Period (Early Modern Translation Cultures Vol. 1), edited by Peter Burschel, Regina Toepfer, Jörg Wesche, pp. 259-85. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2021.
“Converts and Polemicists as Bridges in Knowledge Networks. The Case of Safavid Iran.” In Families, Authority and the Transmission of Knowledge in the Early Modern Middle East, edited by Christoph Werner, Maria Szuppe, Nicolas Michel, and Albrecht Fuess, pp. 65-86. Miroir de l’Orient Musulman 10. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
Translation of Primary Sources
[Excerpt] “Ẓahīr al-Dīn Tafrishī, The Triumph of the Truth”, in The Bloomsbury Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations, 1500-1700, edited by Martha Frederiks. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. [submitted]
Entries in Multi-Volume Reference Books
“Ḥājj ‘Alī Akbar Navvāb ‘Bismil’ Shīrāzī.” In Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, edited by David Thomas and John Chestworth. [submitted]
“Abgar ‘Alī Akbar Armanī.” In Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 12 Asia, Africa and the Americas 1700-1800, edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, pp. 256-9. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
“‘Alī Murād Khān Zand.” In Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 12 Asia, Africa and the Americas 1700-1800, edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, pp. 309-12. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
“‘Alī Qulī Jadīd al-Islām, António de Jesus.” In Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 12 Asia, Africa and the Americas 1700-1800, edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, pp. 266-73. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
“Aimé Chézaud.” In Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 10: Ottoman and Safavid Empires 1600-1700, edited by David Thomas and John Chestworth, pp. 592-7. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
“Filippo Guadagnoli.” In Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 9: Southern and Central Europe 1600-1700, edited by David Thomas and John Chestworth, pp. 749-55. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
Book Reviews
Review of “Ali Anooshahr, Turkestan and the Rise of Eurasian Empires: a Study of Politics and Invented Traditions (Oxford University Press, 2018)”. Historische Zeitschrift 309, Issue 3 (2019): 767-768.
Publications in academic online blogs
“Transmission of Polemics in Safavid Iran: a Case of Transmission of Knowledge”, DYNTRAN Working Papers, n° 20, online edition, January 2017.