Embracing Colonialism: How “Being Iranian” Subsumes Kurdish Identity
Cultural Studies. Online First (2026).
Peer-Reviewed
Journal Articles
“American Islam”: The Politics of Religious Authenticity in Iran Open Access
Digest of Middle East Studies 35, no. 3 (2026): e70030.
The Language of “Conquest” in Syria’s Renewed War Against Kurdish Self-Rule
Mediterranean Politics. Online First (2026): 1–11.
Muslim Brotherhood Legacies and Local Adaptations in Iran: The Iranian Call and Reform OrganizationOpen Access
Politics, Religion & Ideology 26, no. 4 (2025): 542–562.
Religion Meets Gender: The Impact of Sunni Islamic Discourse on the Jina Uprising in Eastern Kurdistan
Review of Middle East Studies 59, no. 2 (2025): 68–76.
Nationalizing Religion: Sufism in the “Persianate World”
Asian Ethnicity 26, no. 2 (2025): 318–343.
Colonial Sovereignty and Religious Necropolitics: The Sacred Victimization of Infidel Kurds in the Middle EastOpen Access
Ethnicities 25, no. 5 (2025): 655–678.
The Ascetics and Early Sufis of Iṣfahān
Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies 8, no. 2 (2023): 1–25.
The Early Sufi Tradition in Hamadān, Nahāwand, and Abhar: Stories of Devotion, Mystical Experiences, and Sufi TextsOpen Access
American Journal of Islam and Society 40, nos. 3–4 (2023): 104–135.
Yaḥyā ibn Muʿādh al-Rāzī and His Disciples: Their Influence on Early SufismOpen Access
Australian Journal of Islamic Studies 8, no. 1 (2023): 42–61.
Gülen-Inspired Schools in Southern Kurdistan: Curriculum and IdeologyOpen Access
Journal of Middle Eastern Research 1, no. 1 (2017): 4–27.
Peer-Reviewed
Book Chapter
Religious Rhetoric and Genocidal Violence: The Massacre of Kurds in Rojhelat Under Khomeini’s Fatwa
In Kaziwa Salih (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Kurdish Genocides, 399–421. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
Books in Progress
The Development of Renunciation and Classical Sufism in the Jibāl Region
Single-authored monograph. Göttingen University Press, forthcoming 2027.
Studia Guranica: On the Literary, Linguistic, Religious, and Cultural Dimensions of Guran
Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2027.