Articles

Noah and the animals on the ark, c. 1425 (Herat)

2025

When the Mountains Were Islands: Landing Noah’s Ark on the Shores of Afghan History,” Viator vol. 55 no. 1 (2025): 23–34.

2024

Churchill’s Heresiography: On the Epistemological Anarchies of 19th-Century Malakand,” Afghanistan vol. 7 no. 2 (2024): 134–9.

Demonic Descents: Contests in Islamic Tribal Etiology,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 67, no. 3-4 (2024): 401–424.

““All the world at the palm of the hand”: imagining history through the life of an early Afghan saint,” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies vol. 87, no. 1 (2024): 151–67.

As Mīr Ways Khān slept: miraculous possibilities in Afghan history,” Edinburgh University Press Blog, 17 May 2024.

2023

Miraculous Edges of Rebellion: On the Strange History of Ḥājjī Mīr Khān,” Afghanistan, vol. 6 no. 2 (2023): 107–124.

Green Boughs on the Graves: Unmooring Herat from Imperial Time,” History & Theory, vol. 62, issue 3 (2023): 367–385.

The Unyielding Dead: Interring Conquest in the Graves of God’s Friends,” Study of Islam in Central Eurasia, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 20 March 2023.