Book
Worldshaping Wonders: Books and Visual Knowledge in Hindustan, under contract with Oxford University Press/British Academy Monographs Series.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“Routes of Translation: Connected Book Histories and al-Jazari’s Robotic Wonders from the Mamluks to Mandu,” South Asian Studies 39 no. 2 (2023): 207–228. link.
“Images for Instruction: A Multilingual Illustrated Dictionary in Fifteenth-Century Sultanate India,” Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World 38 (2021): 77–112. link.
“Remapping the World in a Fifteenth-Century Cosmography: Genres and Networks between Deccan India and Iran,” Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies 59 no. 2 (2021): 151–168. link.
“Arabic in Hindustan: Comparative Poetics in the Eighteenth Century and Azad Bilgrami’s The Coral Rosary,” Journal of South Asian Intellectual History 4 no. 2 (2021): 181–222. link.
“Interpreting the Eye (‘ain): Poetry and Painting in the Shrine of Aḥmad Shāh al-Walī al-Bahmanī (r. 1422—1436),” Archives of Asian Art 67 no. 2 (2017): 189–208.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters (independent review process starred)
“Unfinished Hyperboles! Adam’s Footprint in Sri Lanka and Wonder on the Edge of Modernity,” in Iran and Persianate Culture of the Indian Ocean World, ed. A.C.S. Peacock, 275–300, London: Bloomsbury, 2025.
“Between Sultanate and Mughal Book Cultures,” The Oxford Handbook of the Mughal World, ed. Richard M. Eaton and Ramya Sreenivasan, New York: Oxford University Press, accepted and expected 2024.
“How Persianate Is It? A World-Making Book Transcreated from Iraq to India,” Persian Cultures of Power and the Entanglement of the Afro-Eurasian World, ed. Matthew P. Canepa, 238–256, Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2024.
“Inscribing Orality: Calligraphy, Layout and the Vernacular Anxieties of the Chandayan Manuscripts,” in The Chandayan, 42–55, Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2024.*
“Contemporary Appropriations of the Illustrated Manuscript: Shahzia Sikander’s Disruption as Rapture,” in Intersections: Art and Islamic Cosmopolitanism, ed. Melia Belli Bose, 173–204, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2021.
“Splendour of the City, Nagarshobha: Textile Culture of Mughal Burhanpur,” in Reflections on Mughal Art and Culture, 229–253, New Delhi: Niyogi Books, 2020.*
Book Reviews
The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis by Emma J. Flatt, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, May 17, 2021.
Cultural Exchange in Eighteenth-Century India: Poetry and Paintings from Kishangarh by Heidi Pauwels, caa.reviews, November 29, 2017.
Exhibition Catalog
Shahzia Sikander: Unbound. Cambridge: HRH Prince Alwaleed Centre for Islamic Studies, 2021.
Entries
“Wonder (‘ajab),” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, September 2024. link.
“Mount Qaf and the Angel,” co-written with Ursula Sims-Williams, in Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth, ed. Richard Stoneman, London: The British Library, 2022, p. 235.
“The Mouse and the Cat (Mush u Gurbih) by ‘Ubayd Zakani (1319–70)” in Masterpieces at the Jaipur City Palace Museum, eds. Giles Tillotson and Mrinalini Venkateswaran, 2022, pp. 78–81.
“Ghulām ‘Alī “Āzād” Bilgrāmī,” and “ ‘Abd al-Qādir Badā'ūnī” in Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, eds. Arvind Sharma et al. 2018.
Short-form Public Writing
“Dance performance addresses fraught politics around South Asian heritage,” Review in The Art Newspaper, https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/12/16/dance-performance-addresses-fraught-politics-around-indian-heritage December 16, 2024.
“Open Letter: A Halt to New Delhi’s Demolition,” co-authored with Supriya Gandhi and Ananya Vajpeyi, Aroop: An Occasional Journal of Arts, Poetry and Ideas, vol. 5, 61-65, New Delhi: Raza Foundation, 2024.
“What the violent destruction of a Muslim library in Bihar tells us about the troubling state of Islamic heritage in India,” The Art Newspaper, https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/05/02/burning-books-in-bihar-the-global-implications-of-a-madrasas-libricide-in-india May 2, 2023.
“How partition divided a centuries-old manuscript between India and Pakistan,” co-authored with Aparna Kumar, The Art Newspaper, https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/12/how-partition-divided-a-sufi-manuscript-between-india-and-pakistanand-continues-to-plague-the-regions-heritage August 12, 2022.
“South of What? East of What? Undoing Global Categories and Pyramidal Power Structures,” Arts of the Working Class Issue 13, September 2020, 16-17, co-authored with Denis Maksimov.
“Touch with Your Eyes: Shahzia Sikander in the Rose Garden of Love,” Libas International, February 2017.
“Talismanic Calligraphy Made Contemporary in Marrakech,” Hyperallergic http://hyperallergic.com/292497/talismanic-calligraphy-made-contemporary-in-marrakech/. April 22, 2016.
“The Deccan Watershed: The Potential of Numismatics for Peninsular India,” American Numismatic Society 2016, 4.
“Revisiting The Numismatic History of Rayy by George Miles and a Tradition of Islamic Coinage at the ANS,” American Numismatic Society 2016, 3.
“Interview: Hamid Dabashi Navigates 1400 Years of Persian Literary Tradition,” http://asiasociety.org/blog/asia/interview-hamid-dabashi-navigates-1400-years-persian-literary-tradition. November 23, 2012.
British Library Asian and African Studies Blog
“Toys and ephemera in a fifteenth-century multilingual illustrated dictionary from India,” https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2020/07/toys-and-ephemera-in-a-fifteenth-century-multilingual-illustrated-dictionary-from-india.html. July 8, 2020.
“Arts of the South Asian Sultanates at the British Library,” https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2019/10/arts-of-the-south-asian-sultanates-at-the-british-library.html. October 7, 2019, co-authored with Emily Shovelton.
“Emanating light: Illumination in Islamic manuscripts,” https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2019/08/emanating-light-illumination-in-islamic-manuscripts.html. August 8, 2019.
“Naskhi-divani: a little-recognized sultanate script,” https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2019/06/naskhi-divani-a-little-recognized-sultanate-script.html. June 24, 2019.
“Wonders ‘Gone Viral’ in the Sixteenth-Century Deccan,” http://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2018/09/wonders-gone-viral-in-the-sixteenth-century-deccan.html. September 3, 2018.
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