research

The Shiites of Lebanon: Modernism, Communism and Hizbullah’s Islamists (co-authored with Malek Abisaab), Syracuse, 2014

Converting Persia, London & New York, 2004

Silence of the Law: Astarabadi and His Traditionist Movement (forthcoming)

Literature

“Arabic Poetics through a Canonical Translation: Teaching Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the North” in Teaching Modern Arabic Literature in English Translation, ed. Michelle Hartman, MLA, New York, 2018, pp. 132-147.

“Adonis’s Binarisms and Husayn Muroeh’s Universalism,” al-Adab, March 2019 http://al-adab.com/article/انشطاريّة-أدونيس-وأُمميّة-حسين-مروّة-الإبداع،-الحداثة،-وما-يتعدّى-التقزّمَ-والأسبقيّة

“The Pessoptimist: Breaching the State’s daʿwa (sacred creed) in a Fated Narrative of Secrets,” Edebiyat 13:1, 2003, pp. 1-10.

Social & Legal History

“Sufi Habitus and the shari`a in Late Seventeenth-Century Iran” in The World of the Safavids, ed., Rudi Matthee, Routledge, (in press)

“Delivering Justice: the monarch’s ʿurfī Courts and the shariʿa in Safavid Iran,” Oxford Handbook on Islamic Law, 2017.

“Peasant Uprisings in Astarabad: the Siyāh Pūshān (wearers of black), the Sayyids, and the Safavid State,” Iranian Studies 49:3, April 2016, pp. 471-92.