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Publications

Monographs

15. An Afterlife for the Khan: Muslims, Buddhists, and Sacred Kingship in Mongol Iran and Eurasia (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023). 196 pp., ISBN: 9780520392908.
Finalist: American Academy of Religion Best First Book in the History of Religions

Articles and Book Chapters 

14. “Religious Polemics in Mongol-ruled Iran: A Buddhist Idol in a Jewish Exorcism,” in
The Ethics of Idolatry: Sun and Cosmos Worship in Judaism and Islam, edited by Azfar Moin and Jonathan Schofer (Suny Press, forthcoming in 2027).

13. “Chinese Medicine as Tajriba in Medieval Iran: on Cultural Brokerage, Translation, and Empire,” in
Cultural Brokerage in Premodern Islamic Societies: Agents of Change and Exchange, edited by Luke Yarbrough and Uriel Simonsohn (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2026), 289-321.

12. “Ibn Kammūna Is Going to Hell! Muslim-Jewish Polemics at the Ilkhanid Court,”
Mamlūk Studies Review 27 (2024): 183-203.

11. “Plague and the Mongol Conquest of Baghdad (1258)? A Reevaluation of the Sources,”
Medical History 68, no. 4 (2024): 392-410. Co-authored with Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran.

 

10. “Rashid al-Din and the Jews: A Re-Examination,”
ABA: Journal for the Study of the Jews of Iran, Bukhara, and Afghanistan 13 (2023): 16-34 (in Hebrew).

9. “Chinggisid Pluralism and Religious Competition: Buddhists, Muslims, and the Question of Violence and Sovereignty in Ilkhanid Iran,”
Modern Asian Studies 56 (2022): 815-39.

8. “Disenchanting Heaven: Interfaith Debate, Sacral Kingship, and Conversion to Islam in the Mongol Empire, 1260-1335,”
Past & Present 250 (2021): 11-53.

7. “Rashīd al-Dīn: Buddhism in Iran and the Mongol Silk Roads,” in
Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals, edited by Michal Biran, Francesca Fiaschetti and Jonathan Brack (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023), 215-37.

6. “Introduction,” in
Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals, edited by Michal Biran, Francesca Fiaschetti and Jonathan Brack (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023), 1-24. Co-authored with Michal Biran and Francesca Fiaschetti.

5. “A Mongol Mahdi in Medieval Anatolia: Reform, Rebellion, and Divine Right in the Post-Mongol Islamic World,”
Journal of the American Oriental Society 139, no. 3 (2019): 611-29.

4. “A Jewish Vizier and his Shīʿī Manifesto: Jews, Shīʿīs, and the Politicization of Confessional Identities in Mongol-ruled Iraq and Iran (13th to 14th centuries),”
Der Islam 96, no. 2 (2019): 374-403.

3. “Theologies of Auspicious Kingship: The Islamization of Chinggisid Sacral Kingship in the Islamic world,”
Comparative Studies in Society and History 60, no. 4 (2018): 1143-71.

2. “Was Ede Bali a Wafāʾī Shaykh? Sufis, Sayyids and Genealogical Creativity in the Early Ottoman World,” in
Islamic Literature and Intellectual Life in Fourteenth and Fifteenth-Century Anatolia, edited by Andrew Peacock and Sara Nur Yildiz (Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2016), 333-60.

1. “A Mongol Princess Making Hajj: the Biography of El Qutlugh Daughter of Abagha Ilkhan (r.
1265-82),”
Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3, 21, no. 3 (2011): 331-59.

Edited Volumes and Edited Special Issues

  • Mamlūk Studies Review: Studies in Honor of Reuven Amitai 27 (2024). Co-edited with Or Amir and Michal Biran.
  • Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia: Generals, Merchants, and Intellectuals (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2020). 360 pp., ISBN: 9780520298750. Co-edited with Michal Biran and Francesca Fiaschetti.
    • Reviewed: Speculum, Der Islam, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Central Asiatic Journal, The Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Islamic Studies, Acta Orientalia, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung
    • Published in Korean as 몽골제국, 실크로드의 개척자들: 장군, 상인, 지식, Mongol jegug, Silk Road-eui gaecheokja deul: janggun, sang’in, jisik'in [The Mongol Empire and the Pioneers of the Silk Road: Generals, merchants and Intellectuals]. Tr. by Yi Jaehwang. Seoul: Chaekgwa hamggye (Cum Libro), 2021.

Book Reviews

  • Review of Louise Marlow, Medieval Muslim Mirrors for Princes: An Anthology of Arabic, Persian and Turkish Political Advice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023). Speculum 100, no. 3 (2025): 826-27.
  • Review of Alan Strathern, Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). Journal of Early Modern History 25 (2021): 580-83.
  • Review of Ali Anooshahr, Turkestan and the Rise of Eurasian Empires: a Study of Politics and Invented Traditions (Oxford: University Press, 2018). The Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 7, no. 2 (2021): 259-63.
  • Review of Bruno De Nicola and Charles Melville, eds., The Mongols’ Middle East: Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran (Leiden: Brill, 2016). Journal of the American Oriental Society 139, no. 3 (2019): 749-50.
  • Review of Peter Jackson, The Mongols and the Islamic World: From Conquest to Conversion (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 81, no. 2 (2018): 345-7.
  • Review of Patrick Wing, The Jalayirids: Dynastic State Formation in the Mongol Middle East (Edinburgh, 2016). Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 80, no. 1 (2017): 149-50.
  • Review of Zeynep Yürekli, Architecture and Hagiography in the Ottoman Empire: the Politics of Bektashi Shrines in the Classical Age (Ashgate, 2012). Der Islam 91, no. 2 (2014): 450-58.
  • Review of William W. Fitzhugh, Morris Rossabi and William Honeychurch, eds. Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire (Washington, 2009). Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, Series 3, 21, no. 2 (2011): 229-31.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Monographs

  • Ever Closer Encounters: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in the Mongols’ Middle East (Book manuscript in progress, research and writing underway)

Peer Review

  • Review Editor, Medieval Encounters (2024-present)
  • Article reviewer for Comparative Studies in Society and History, Gender & History, Journal of Material Culture, Iranian Studies, Journal of Persianate Studies, Central Asiatic Journal, and al-Usur al-Wusta.
  • Book proposal reviewer for the University of Edinburgh Press and Palgrave
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