Peer-Reviewed Articles
"Sayyid Qutb in Iran: Translating the Islamist Ideologue in the Islamic Republic," Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies 1.2 (2016): 35-60.
[Translated into Arabic, Russian and Turkish languages. Featured in analyses published by the American Foreign Policy Council, Hudson Institute, and Brooking Institution among others.]
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
“Refraining from Seeking Clarification: A Chapter from the al-Wafi fi sharh? al-Wafiya of al-A?raji (d. 1227/1812),” in Robert Gleave (ed.), Shi?ite Legal Theory: Sources and Commentaries (Gibbs-Edinburgh University Press, 2023).
“Princesses, Patronage, and the Production of Knowledge in Safavid Iran,” in Künkler, Mirjam and Devin J Stewart (eds.), Female Religious Authority in Shi’i Islam: A Comparative History (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021), 211-71.
“Seyyid Kutub Iran'da: Islam Cumhuriyeti'nde Islamci Bir Ideologu Tercüme Etmek," in Aktay, Yasin, Seyyid Kutub: Siyasal Teoloji Fikih ve Tarihsellik (Istanbul: Pinar Yayinlari, 2018): 411-451.
INVITED TALKS:
2023 “The Bone of Contention: Safavid Revolutionary Exhumations and Sectarian Violence
in the Early Modern Middle East (1500-1639”
Hosted by The Arabic Philosophy Working Group
Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, May 9
CONFERENCES & ANNUAL MEETINGS
2023 “A Traveling Shi'i Polemic: Risalah-i Husniya and Its Trans-Iranian Adventure”
Workshop: Religion and Ideology in a Transottoman Context, 18th-19th Centuries
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, May 30
2023 “Converting al-Ghazali to Shi'i Islam: The Reception and Legacy of the Sunni Theologian in Safavid Iran”
Workshop: 30 Years after Richard M. Frank Al-Ghazali and Avicenna in Post-Classical Islam,
Yale Macmillan Center, Council on Middle East Studies, New Haven, CT, April 28-29
2022 (Panel Organizer & Presenter)
“The Bone of Contention: Safavid Revolutionary Exhumations and Sectarian Violence
in the Early Modern Middle East”
Middle East Studies Association's Annual Meeting (MESA), Denver, CO, 1-4 December
2022 “The Genesis and Evolution of a Religious Narrative in Safavid Iran: The Story of
the Green Island”
American Oriental Society (AOS), Boston, Massachusetts, 18-21 March
2019 Discussant and Participant: “Shi'i Legal Theory Summer School.”
Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, NJ, 25-31 August
“Princesses, Patronage, and the Production of Knowledge in Safavid Iran”
Middle East Studies Association's Annual Meeting (MESA), New Orleans,
Louisiana, 14-17 November
2017 (Panel Organizer & Presenter)
“The Translation of Non-Shiite Works in Safavid Iran”
Middle East Studies Association's Annual Meeting (MESA) in Washington, D.C.
18-21 November
2016 Sayyid Qutb in Iran: Translating the Islamic Ideologue in the Islamic Republic”
Middle East Studies Association's Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.,
17-20 November
2015 “Risalah-i Husniyah: A Defiant Polymath Shi’i Slave Girl at the Court of Harun al-
Rashid – Shi’ite Polemic in Narrative Form”
Symposia Iranica, University of Cambridge, U.K., 8-9 Ap