Publications

Books

Making and Remaking Empire in Early Qajar Iran. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.

The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere (co-edited with Abbas Amanat). Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

‘Safavid Nostalgia in Early Qajar Chronicles’. In The Contest for Rule in Eighteenth-Century Iran, edited by Charles Melville, 81–102. Idea of Iran, 11. London: I.B. Tauris, 2022.

‘A Familial State: Elite Families, Ministerial Offices, and the Formation of Qajar Iran’. International Journal of Middle East Studies 51, no. 01 (February 2019): 43–64.

‘Copied and Collected: Firmans, Petitions, and the Political History of Qajar Iran’. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 62, no. 5–6 (November 2019): 963–97.

‘Introduction: Pathways to the Persianate’. In The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere, edited by Abbas Amanat and Assef Ashraf, 1–14. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019.

‘The Politics of Gift Exchange in Early Qajar Iran, 1785-1834’. Comparative Studies in Society and History 58, no. 2 (April 2016): 550–76.

Book Reviews

Blain Auer, In the Mirror of Persian Kings: The Origins of Perso-Islamic Courts and Empires in India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Global Intellectual History 8: 5 (2023).

Michael Axworthy, ed., Crisis, Collapse, Militarism and Civil War: The History and Historiography of 18th Century Iran (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). Iranian Studies 52: 3–4 (2019).

Hooshang Amirahmadi, The Political Economy of Iran under the Qajars: Society, Politics, Economics and Foreign Relations, 1796–1926 (London: I.B. Tauris, 2012). International Journal of Middle East Studies 47: 4 (November 2015).

Other Writing

'Bahaʾiyan va Siyasat dar Dawran-yi Qajar' [Baha’is and Politics during the Qajar Era], in Erfan Sabeti, ed. Aʾin-i Bahaʾi: Jamʿih va Siyasat (Santa Monica, Calif.: Bunyad-i Taslimi, 2020), 21–28.