ARTICLES

“Voyage Stories: The Natural and Supernatural on the Deck of a Dhow,” Al-ʿUsūr al-Wustā, Vol. 33 (2025): 443-446.

“Writing from the Coast: A Short Tribute to Michael Pearson,” Asian Review of World Histories, Vol. 12 (2024): 23-24.

“The Sailing Scribes: Circulating Law in the Twentieth Century Indian Ocean,” Law and History Review, Vol. 41, Issue 3 (2023): 587-604.

“The Stuff of Legal History,” an Afterword to the Forum “The Everyday Materials of Colonial Legal Spaces,” Law and History Review, Vol. 40, Issue 3 (2022): 491-493.

“Circulation and Capitalism in a Maritime Bazaar: Notes from a Pearl Merchant’s Chest,” Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, Vol. 24, No. 1 (2022): 107-117.

“Islam and the Indian Ocean: Legal Culture and Economic Life,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedias, Asian History (2021)

“History at Sea: Route and World on an Indian Ocean Dhow,” Matatu, Vol. 52 (2021): 9–34.

“The Diver’s New Papers: Wealth, People, and Property in a Persian Gulf Bazaar,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 64 (2021): 513-540.

With Nandini Chatterjee, “Introduction: The Persianate Bazaar,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 64 (2021): 487-512.

Co-authored with Hollian Wint, “Into the Bazaar: Indian Ocean Vernaculars in the Age of Global Capitalism,” Journal of Global History, Vol. 16, No. 1 (2021): 44-64.

“The Many Voyages of Fateh Al-Khayr: Unfurling the Gulf in the Age of Oceanic History,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 52, No. 3 (2020): 397-412.

“Histories of Law and Economic Life in the Islamic World,” History Compass, Vol. 18, No. 4 (2020)

“Imagining Oceans of Law, circa 1910,” Itinerario, Vol. 42, Special Issue 2 (2018), pp. 168-182.

“No Country but the Ocean: Reading International Law from the Deck of an Indian Ocean Dhow, c. 1900,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 60, No. 2 (2018), pp. 338-366

“Ships Passing in the Night? Reflections on the Middle East in the Indian Ocean” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Roundtable on the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean (December 2016), pp. 758-762.

“Paper Routes: Inscribing Islamic Law Across the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean” Law and History Review, Vol. 32, No. 4 (2014), pp. 797-820

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Paper Cargoes, Mobile Histories: A View from the Twentieth-Century Dhow,” in Julia Verne and Burkhardt Schneppel (eds.) Cargoes in Motion: Materiality and Connectivity across the Indian Ocean (Ohio University Press, 2022)

“The Waraqa: The Biography of an Obligation” in World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean (Karannert Art Museum, 2018)

“Writing Across the Waters in the Gulf and Indian Ocean” in Between East and West: A Gulf, a written accompaniment to Kuwait’s Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2016)

With Patricia Risso, “The Gulf, the Indian Ocean and the Arab World” in J.E. Peterson, ed., The Emergence of the Gulf States: Studies in Modern History (London: Bloomsbury, 2016)

With Bernard Haykel, Steffen Hertog, Clive Holes, and James Onley, “The Economic Transformation of the Gulf” in J.E. Peterson, ed., The Emergence of the Gulf States: Studies in Modern History (London: Bloomsbury, 2016)

“Riwāyah and Tārīkh: Sources and Scholarship in Arabic Gulf Historiography” in Lawrence G. Potter, ed., The Gulf in Modern Times: People, Ports and History (New York: Palgrave, 2014)

“Mapping the Indian Ocean World of Gulf Merchants, c. 1890-1960” in Abdul Sheriff and Engseng Ho, eds., The Indian Ocean: Oceanic Connections and Creation of New Societies (New York: Hurst, 2014)