Articles & Essays

Select Articles & Essays


The Atlantic

A Newly Discovered Manuscript and Its Lesson on Islam: Early drafts of a canonical work show how Muslims' understanding of their faith has evolved.


Islamic Law & Society

"Scholars, Spice Traders, and Sultans: Arguing over the Alms-Tax in the Mamluk Era." ILS 27 (2020): 53-82.


Journal of Near Eastern Studies

"Revision in the Manuscript Age: New Evidence of Early Versions of Ibn Ḥajar's Fatḥ al-Bārī." 76, no. 1 (April 2017): 39-51.


Race and Secularism in America

"Overlooking Race and Secularism in Muslim Philadelphia," co-authored with Josh Dubler. In Race and Secularism in America, edited by Vincent Lloyd and Jonathan S. Kahn, 122-50. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.


The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies

“Pedagogy and the Digital Humanities: Undergraduate Exploration into the Transmission of Early Islamic Law.” In The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies, edited by Elias Muhanna, 233-50. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016.


Encyclopaedia of Islam

“Ḥadīth commentary” Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, edited by Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson. Leiden: Brill, 2018.


Oriens

“Hadith Commentary in the Presence of Students, Patrons, and Rivals: Ibn Ḥajar and Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī in Mamluk Cairo.” Oriens 41, no. 3-4 (2013): 261-287.