RESEARCH

Research Interests

History of sectarian identity and institutions in Islam; nationalism, Islamism and the state in the modern Middle East; debates on orthodoxy and heterodoxy; Islamic imperial history, eschatology, and revolution; network theory, transnationalism between Iran and the Arab World

Selected Publications

From Cairo to Samarra

From Cairo to Samarra

“From Cairo to Samarra: The Transnational Scholarly Reception of the Taqrib Project,” in Legacies of Islamic Ecumenicism: Taqrib, Shi'a-Sunni Relations, and Globalized Politics in the Middle East. May, 2021.

Five Myths of Sectarian De-Escalation

Five Myths of Sectarian De-Escalation

“Five Myths of Sectarian De-Escalation.” With Payam Mohseni. Engaging Sectarian De-Escalation Proceedings of the Symposium on Islam and Sectarian De-Escalation at Harvard Kennedy School. Cambridge, MA: Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, August 2019.