Publications

Books in Print (see below for list of articles)

Articles (mostly online; accessible through libraries)

“The Kartids in Tajik History,” In Tajiks: History, Religion, Culture, and People. Ed., Dagi Dagiev. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (forthcoming)

“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

“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

“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

“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

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