Academic Profile
Sample Publications
A Monumental Manifestation of the Shi'i Faith in Late-Twelfth-Century Iran: The Case of the Gunbad-i 'Alawiyyan, Hamadan, Oxford University Press, in the Series of Oxford Studies in Islamic Art 11, Oxford, 1996; "A Judeo-Persian Talismanic Textile", Irano-Judaica IV (1999), pp. 251-273; "The Iconography of the Dome of the Rock" Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 23 (1999), pp. 158-207; "On the Umayyad Dating of the Double Gate in Jerusalem", Muqarnas 18 (2001), pp. 1-40; "Noah's Ark and the Ship of Faith", Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 27 (2002), pp. 127-203; "'Ali b. Abi Talib - The Lion of God: Iconographical Study of the Lion Image in Shi'i-inspired Mi'raj Paintings", in Survey of Persian Art 18, ed. Abbas Daneshvari, Mazda Publication, Costa Mesa California, 2004, pp. 265-426; "A Pictorial Representation of the Hadith al-thaqalayn in the Ilkhanid copy of Bal'ami's Tarjumah-yi tarikh-i Tabari in the Freer Gallery, Smithsonoan Institution, Washington D.C.", in The Iconography of Islamic Art, Studies in Honour of Robert Hillenbrand, ed,. Bernard O'Kane, Edinburgh University Press, 2005, pp. 285-308; "On the Legitimate Authority Issue in Bal'ami's Tarjuma-yi tarikh-i Tabari at the Freer Gallery in Washington D.C.", in Scritti in Onore di Giovanni M. d'Erme, ed. Michele Bernardini and Natalia Tornesello, Napoli, 2005, pp. 1115-1138; "Illustrations of the Ship of Faith Parable in Firdausi;s Prologue to the Shahnama", in Shahnama Studies I, ed. Chrles Melville, University of Cambridge, 2006, pp. 1-39; "Calligraphic Lions Symbolising the Esoteric Dimension of 'Ali's Nature", in The Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shi'ism, ed. Pedram Khosronejad, I.B. Tauris, London, 2012, pp. 122-158.