Publications

Monographs in Print

Chapters in Books

“The ‘Guardian of the Two Holy Places’ and the Hajj: the Iranian challenge to Mamluk control of the Hijaz, 871–82/1467–78,” In The Mamluk Sultanate and its Periphery. Ed., Frédéric Bauden. Louvain, Belgium: Peeters, 2023, pp. 84–111.

“The Iranian Interlude: from Mongol decline to Tamerlane’s invasion,” In The Idea of Iran: Iran after the Mongols, vol. 8. Ed. Sussan Babaie. London: I.B. Tauris, 2019, pp. 159–76

Journal Articles (accessible through libraries)

“The Gawhar Shad Waqf Deed: Public works and the commonweal,” Journal of the American Oriental Society 138, no. 4 (2018): 821–57.

“The Shaykh al-Islam in Medieval Khurasan,” Afghanistan 1, no. 2 (2018): 257–81

“Two Original Decrees by Sultan-Husayn Bayqara in the National Archives in Kabul,” Acta Orientalia 71, no. 2 (2018): 161–78

“Tamerlane’s conquest of Herat and the ‘politics of notables’,” Studia Iranica 46, no. 1 (2017): 49–76

“A revised history of Mongol, Kart, and Timurid patronage of the shrine of Shaykh al-Islam Ahmad-i Jam,” Iran 54, no. 2 (2016): 107–28

“The Shrine of Shaykh Ahmad-i Jam: Notes on a revised chronology and a Waqfiyya,” Iran 50 (2012): 145–48

“The Sarbadars of Sabzavar: Re-examining their ‘Shiʿa’ roots and alleged goal to ‘destroy Khurasanian Sunnism’,” Journal of Shiʿa Islamic Studies 5, no. 4 (2012): 379–402

Military Journals

“Conceptual failure, the Taliban’s Parallel Hierarchies, and America’s Strategic Defeat in Afghanistan,” Small Wars & Insurgencies 25, no. 1 (2014): 91-121

“Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Taliban of Afghanistan: ‘Puritanical Reform’ as a ‘Revolutionary War’ program,” Small Wars & Insurgencies 26, no. 3 (2015): 383-407

Geopolitical and Military Analyses (Select list)

“Perception vs reality: What the Israel–Iran war actually reveals,” The Cradle, 21 June 2025

“The CIA’s war-before-war: From Iraq to Iran,” The Cradle, 13 May 2025

“How do Iranians ‘Boil a Frog’? Slowly and methodically,” The Cradle, 3 April 2024

“Israeli air defenses are not ‘Untouchable’” The Cradle, 17 April 2024

“Ayatollah Khamenei’s letter to US students shaped by insightful reading of history, politics,” PressTV, 31 May 2024