Articles

2026

• Power Plays: A Brief Theory of Islamic Game

2025

• The Tree as an “Animal-esque Plant” (Nabat Hayawani): Arboreal Thoughtscapes in Islamic Lands
• The Muslim Metaverse and its Premoderns: Islam in an Expanding Reality
• Riding the Winds of Change: Khamseen and Islamic Art History Online

2024

• Islamic Art in the Third Millennium: From Regimes to Horizons
• “A Safavid Multiple-Text Compendium: Formal Contents and Visual Conundra”
• The Painterly Still: Twentieth-Century Egyptian Film Posters
• Wishing Trees and Whirling Rocks: Eco-Material Rituals at the Alevi Shrine of Abdal Musa
• Riding the Winds of Change: Khamseen and Islamic Art History Online

2023

• From ISIS to the AfD: Ultraist Rhetoric and Visuality in Alt-Orientalist Concurrence
• The Prophet Muhammad’s Sandalprint: Muslim Retro-Cool and the Product-Placed Sermon in Contemporary Turkey
• From Moral Catechism to Scathing Critique: Picturing Hell in Islamic Traditions

2022

• Buraq in Islamic Pictorial Traditions
• Mi‘râçnâme’nin Osmanlı saray koleksiyonu’ndaki serüveni ve etkisi: Görsel ilham kaynağı ve yazılı yorumu
• The Mi’rajnama’s Afterlife in Ottoman Palace Circles: Pictorial Stimulus and Verbal Ekphrasis
• İlhama yolculuk: Miraç metinleri ve resimleri
• Journey to Inspiration: Mi’raj Texts and Images
• The Prophet Muhammad’s ‘Ayn Seal: A Safavid-Period Diagram as Cosmic Vision
• Engines of Prophecy: Materializing Muhammad in the Modern Islamic World (in English and German)
• The Prophet as a Sacred Spring: Late Ottoman Hilye Bottles

2021

• Without Pen, Without Ink: Fingernail Art in the Qajar Period
• The Masonic Muhammad: Modern Franco-Iranian Visual Encounters in Prophetic Iconography
• Like Hearts of Birds: Ottoman Avian Microarchitecture in the Eighteenth Century

2020

• Bereket Bargains: Islamic Amulets in Today’s “New Turkey”
• “Mi‘rajnama,” The Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE

2019

• The Mi’raj Mosaic at Princeton University
• The Visual Culture of ISIS: Truculent Iconophilia as Antagonistic Co-Evolution
• Idols and Figural Images in Islam: A Brief Dive into a Perennial Debate
• Real Absence: Imagining God in Turco-Persian Painting, 1300-1600 CE
• ‘Go Wherever You Wish, for Verily You are Well Protected’: Seal Designs in Late Ottoman Amulet Scrolls and Prayer Books
• Islamic Miniature Books in the Pistner Collection

2018

• King of Kings of Africa: Racializing Qaddafi in the Visual Output of the 2011 Libyan Revolution
• Matériaux mystiques: L’art religieux et dévotionnel de l’Iran qajar
• Gezi Graffiti: Shout-Outs to Resistance and Rebellion in Contemporary Turkey
• “Posters in Iran,” Encyclopaedia Iranica
• Introduction to Creative Dissent: The Visual Arts of the Arab World Uprising

2017

• The Gezi Martyrs and Visual Resistance in Turkey
• Back to Nature: The Votive in Islamic Visual and Material Cultures
• Images of the Prophet Muhammad: Brief Thoughts on Some European-Islamic Encounters
• In Defense and Devotion: Affective Practices in Early Modern Turco-Persian Manuscript Paintings
• Painting, from Royal to Urban Patronage (1450-1650)

2016

• The Path to Paradise: Jerusalem in Islamic Ascension Texts and Images
• From Prayer to Protection: Amulets and Talismans in the Islamic World
• The Cranes of Gezi
• Nazr Necessities: Votive Objects and Practices in Iranian Muharram Ceremonies
• Curse Signs: The Artful Rhetoric of Hell in Safavid Iran
• “Buraq,” Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World

2015

• Nefertiti in a Gas Mask

2014

• Islamic Architecture on the Move, Editor’s Preface
• The Rose of the Prophet: Floral Metaphors in Late Ottoman Devotional Art
• The Visual Emergence of the Occupy Gezi Movement
• The Prophet Muhammad’s Footprint
• “Images,” Muhammad in History, Thought, and Culture: An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God
• Catalogue Essay “Pearls of Wisdom”

2013

• To Not Toil in Lonely Obsession: Modern Persian Erotica in the Kinsey Institute
• Images of Muhammad In and Out of Modernity: The Curious Case of a 2008 Mural in Tehran
• Strategic Strikes: Images of War and Disaster from Iran to America
• Power and Protection: Late Ottoman Seal Designs
• Introduction: Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East
• NEWTON Interview on Jadaliyya, “Visual Culture of the Modern Middle East”

2012

• Prophetic Products: Muhammad in Contemporary Iranian Visual Culture
• The Missiri of Fréjus as Healing Memorial: Mosque Metaphors and the French Colonial Army (1928-1964)
• The Martyrs’ Museum in Tehran: Visualizing Memory in Post-Revolutionary Iran
• Introduction: The Politics and Poetics of the Child Image in Muslim Contexts
• Questioning the ‘Classical’ in Persian Painting: Models and Problems of Definition
• “Al-Buraq,” The Encyclopaedia of Islam

2011

• Signs of the Hour: Eschatological Imagery in Islamic Book Arts
• The ‘Restored’ Shi‘i Mushaf as Divine Guide?: The Practice of Fal-i Qur’an in the Safavid Period
• Between Logos (Kalima) and Light (Nur): Representations of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Painting (in English and Portuguese)
• When Nubuvvat Encounters Valayat: Safavid Paintings of the Prophet Muhammad’s Mi’raj, ca. 1500-1550

2009

• The Ilkhanid Mi’rajnama of ca. 1317-35 as an Illustrated Sunni Prayer Manual
• Introduction: Islamic Book Arts in Indiana University Collections
• A Pious Cure-All: The Ottoman Illustrated Prayer Manual in the Lilly Library
• Realabsenz: Gottesbilder in der Islamischen Kunst zwischen 1300 und 1600 (in German and Turkish)
• Il viaggio del Profeta: Il Libro dell’Ascensione di Maometto
• Media/ting Conflict: Iranian Posters from the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88)
• Die timuridische Handscrift Himmelfahrt des Propheten Muhammad (Mi’rajnameh)

2008

• The Message is on the Wall: Mural Arts in Post-Revolutionary Iran
• Jerusalem in the Visual Propaganda of Post-Revolutionary Iran
• “Me‘raj ii. Illustrations,” Encyclopedia Iranica

2006

• “Divination,” in Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia

2005

• The Keir Mi‘raj: Islamic Storytelling and the Picturing of Tales in the Fifteenth Century

2004

• The Prophet Muhammad’s Ascension (Mi‘raj) in Islamic Painting and Literature: Evidence from Cairo Collections