Publications

A list of my publications may also be found on my Academia.edu page.

Monographs

The Eastern Frontier: Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia, London: I.B. Tauris, 2019.

Edited Volumes

With Steven Judd, Islam on the Margins: Studies in Memory of Michael Bonner, Leiden: Brill, 2023.

Articles

Triliteral Coins and Political Authority along a Contentious Frontier: Between Arabic, Bactrian, and Pahlavi in Late Antique Khurāsān,” in Navigating Language in the Early Islamic World: Multilingualism and Language Change in the First Centuries of Islam, edited by Antoine Borrut, Manuella Ceballos, and Alison Vacca, (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepolis, 2024), pp. 259-80.

Aristocratic Violence and ribat in Samanid Central Asia,” in Islam on the Margins: Studies in Memory of Michael Bonner, edited by Robert Haug and Steven Judd, (Leiden: Brill, 2023), pp. 47-87.

The Gifts of Mihragan: Taxation, Tribute, and the Licitness of Gifts on Non-Muslim Holidays,” in What Difference Does Time Make? edited by Richard Beal and JoAnn Scurlock, (Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, 2020), pp. 31-43.

Frontiers and the State in Early Islamic History: Jihad Between Caliphs and Volunteers,” History Compass, vol. 9 (2011), 634-43.

Reprinted in The Caliphate and Islamic Statehood: Formation, Fragmentation and Modern Interpretations, edited by Carool Kersten, (Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2015), 1:76-86.

Dissertation

The Gate of Iron: The Making of the Eastern Frontier,” University of Michigan, 2010.

Book Reviews

Tayeb El-Hibri, The Abbasid Caliphate: A History, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021) in International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 54 (2022), 394-6.

Scott Savran, Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative: Memory and Identity Construction in Islamic Historiography, 750-1050, (Abingdon, Oxon and New York: Routledge, 2018) in Review of Middle East Studies 53 (2019), 179-81.

Arezou Azad, Sacred Landscapes in Medieval Afghanistan: Revisiting the Fada’il-i Balkh, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) in The Journal of Near Eastern Studies, vol. 74 (2015), 366-8.

Milka Levy-Rubin, Non-Muslims in the Early Islamic Empire: From Surrender to Coexistence, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) in Middle East Media and Book Reviews Online, vol. 1 (2013).

Encyclopedia Entries

Mansur I b. Nuh I,” Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, (Leiden: Brill, 2022), vol. 2022-6, pp. 91-3.

Mansur II b. Nuh II,” Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, (Leiden: Brill, 2022), vol. 2022-5, pp. 82-4.

Central Asia (excluding greater Khurasan),” The Encyclopedia of Ancient History: Asia and Africa, (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2021).

Farighunids,” Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, (Leiden: Brill, 2015), vol. 2015-4, pp. 132-4.

`Amr b. al-Layth,” Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, (Leiden: Brill, 2010), vol. 2010, pp. 91-2.

with Sussan Babaie, “Isfahan x. Monuments,” Encyclopaedia Iranica, (New York: Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation, 2007), 14:6-40.

Not Peer Reviewed

Recompense and Reward: The Scholarly Contributions of Michael David Bonner (1952-2019),” Der Islam, 96 (2019), pp. 271-80.

En el techo del mundo: La expansion hacia Oriente,” Desperta Ferro, 46 (March, 2018), pp. 40-9.