Overview
Research Focus
Publications
Book
Slavery and Empire in Central Asia. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2018.
The Life of Muhammad Sharif: A Central Asian Sufi Hagiography in Chaghatay. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2015.
Edited Volume
Beyond Modernism: Rethinking Islam in Russia, Central Asia and Western China (19th-20th Centuries). Co-edited with Devin DeWeese and Paolo Sartori. Double theme-issue of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 59/1-2 (2016).
Journal Articles (selected)
“Beyond the Bazaars: Geographies of the Slave Trade in Central Asia.” Modern Asian Studies (2017)
“A Persian Captive’s Guide to Khiva: Esmāʿil Mir-Panja’s Satirical Recollections.” Journal of Persianate Studies 9 (2016), 205-227.
“A Soviet Jihad against Hitler: Ishan Babakhan Calls Central Asian Muslims to War.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 59/1-2 (2016), 237-264.
“Moving Beyond Modernism: Rethinking Cultural Change in Muslim Eurasia (19th-20th Centuries).” With Devin DeWeese and Paolo Sartori. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 59/1-2 (2016), 1-36.
“A Sufi Saint in Sixteenth-Century East Turkistan: New Evidence Concerning the Life of Khwāja Isḥāq.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 25/2 (April, 2015), 229-245.
