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Scholarly Interests Like %Tor specializes in the political, social, religious, and military history of the medieval Middle East and Central Asia, from the rise of Islam until the 13th century. Her first book traced the privatization of jihad in the 8th century and the rise of independent militias, especially the \'ayyaran, in the central Islamic lands, demonstrating the importance of these groups in both the disintegration of the Caliphate and the formation of Islamic chivalry. Additionally, she has published numerous refereed articles and encyclopedia entries in leading journals and reference works in the field, on topics including medieval Islamic military slavery; the survival and Islamization of Late Antique Iranian traditions of rulership; the appointment of the eighth Shi\'ite Imam as heir apparent to the \'Abbasid throne; and a numismatic history of the first of the Persianate successor dynasties to arise in the Islamic heartlands.\r\nShe is currently writing a thematic history of the Great Seljuq Dynasty (1040-1194) for Cambridge University Press. The book examines critical historical problems related to this first of the successive waves of Central Asian invaders, which inaugurated the millennium-long Turco-Mongol domination of the Middle East, and also editing a volume of articles on early Islamic Khurasan and Transoxiana.%
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