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PUBLICATIONS

“Common sense is but dead theory”

- Ernest Gellner -

Monographs

Other Academic Publications 

Female Power and Religious Change in the Medieval Near East. Oxford Studies in the Abrahamic Religions, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023

 

A Common Justice: The Legal Allegiances of Christians and Jews under Early Islam. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011

Edited Volumes

Cultural Brokerage in the Premodern Islamic Societies, co-editor with Luke Yarbrough. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2026.

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Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age: A Sourcebook, co-editor with Nimrod Hurvitz, Christian Sahner, and Luke Yarbrough. Berkeley:  California University press, 2020.

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The Family in Late Antiquity: Between Kinship and Community, co-editor with Yaniv Fox. Jerusalem: Bialik Institute Press, 2019.

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Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times: A Festschrift in Honor of Mark R. Cohen, co-editor with Arnold E. Franklin, Roxani Eleni Margariti, and Marina Rustow. Leiden: Brill (Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies), 2014.

 

“Kinship Encounters in the Early and Medieval Islamic World.” Co-editor with Oded Zinger, special issue, Medieval Encounters 30, no. 2-3, 2024.

Journal Publications

"Exploring the Liminal Characteristics of Muslim Converts: An Analysis of Rabbinic and Ecclesiastical Legal References from the Early Islamic to Abbasid Periods," JAOS 145, no. 1 (2025): 1-18.

 

"Cross-Religious Cultural Agency: The Liminal Features of Jewish Converts to Islam in Early ʿAbbāsid Iraq." Al-Masāq (Feb., 2025): 1-25.​

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With Oded Zinger, "Kinship Encounters: People and Ideas in the Medieval Islamicate World," Medieval Encounters 30, no. 2-3 (2024): 131-172.‏

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"Early and Medieval Islamic Views on Maternal Authority in Circumstances of Religious Differences," Al-Qanṭara 44, no. 2 (2023): 1-16.

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“Even though it be against yourselves, or your parents and kinsmen” (Q 4:135) – The Prioritization of God over Family in Classical Islamic Literature,” Ha-mizrah he-hadhash 62 (2023): 119-39 [in Hebrew]

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“Kinship Ties between Apostates and their Former Coreligionists – A Comparison between Gaonic Positions and Legal Principles of the Four Sunni Legal Schools,” Jewish Law Annual, forthcoming [in Hebrew]

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"Female conversion to Islam: a sample analysis of medieval narratives of the prophetic age," Mediterranean Historical Review, 35:1 (2020): 9-25.

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"Conversion, Exemption, and Manipulation: Social Benefits and Conversion to Islam in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages,” Medieval Worlds 6 (2017): 196-216.

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“Communal Membership despite Religious Exogamy: A Critical Examination of East and West Syrian Legal Sources of the Late Sasanian – Early Islamic periods,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 75/2 (2016): 249-66.

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“The Introduction and Formalization of Civil Law in the East Syrian Church in the Late Sasanian – Early Islamic Periods,” History Compass, 14/5 (2016): 231-44.

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“The Legal and Social Bonds of Jewish Apostates and Their Spouses according to Gaonic Responsa,” Jewish Quarterly Review 105/4 (2015): 417-39.

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“The Pact of ʿUmar in Religious and Cultural Contexts,” Historia, 35/1 (2015) [In Hebrew]: 31-64.

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“Conversion to Islam: A Case Study for the Use of Legal Sources,” History Compass, 11/8 (2013): 647-62. Commissioned

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“‘Halting Between Two Opinions’: Conversion and Apostasy in Early Islam,” Medieval Encounters, 19/3 (2013): 342-70.

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“The Biblical Narrative in the Annales of Saʿīd ibn Baṭrīq and the Question of Medieval Byzantine-Orthodox Identity,” Islam and Christian Muslim Relations 22/1 (2011): 37-55.

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“The Christians Whose Force is Hard: Non-Ecclesiastical Judicial Authorities in the Early Islamic Period,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 53/4 (2010): 579-620.

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“Seeking Justice among the ‘Outsiders’: Christian Recourse to Non-Ecclesiastical Judicial Systems under Early Islam,” Church History and Religious Culture 89/1-2 (2009): 191-216.

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“Communal Boundaries Reconsidered: Jews and Christians Appealing to Muslim Authorities in the Medieval Near East,” Jewish Studies Quarterly 14/4 (2007): 328-63.

 

“The Subversion of Gender Hierarchies in Saḥābī Dialogues.” In Sabine Shmidtke and Omer Michaelis (eds.), Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamicate World and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Sarah Stroumsa, 72-97. Leiden: Brill, 2023.

 

“Islamic Ascetic and Christian Monastic Ties in Early Abbasid Iraq: Ibn Abī al-Dunyā’s Adaptation of the Maccabean Story of the Mother and Her Seven Sons.” In Yonatan Moss (ed.), The Joining of the Ways: The Abrahamic Crucible in Early Abbasid Iraq. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming

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"The Survival of the Household under Early Islamic Rule." In Eduard Iricinschi and Chrysi Kotsifou (eds.), Coping with Religious Change: Adopting Transformations and Adapting Rituals in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, forthcoming

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“Women at the Crossroads of Muslim – non-Muslim Encounters: Conversion and Intermarriage in the Early Islamic Period." In Clara Almagro Vidal, Jessica Tearney-Pearce, and Luke Yarbrough (eds.), Minorities in Contact in the Medieval Mediterranean, 51-70. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020

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​“Family Does Matter: Muslim–Non-Muslim Kinship Ties in the Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Periods.” In Petre Guran and David A. Michelson (eds.), Faith and Community around the Mediterranean: In Honor of Peter R. L. Brown, 209-226. Études Byzantines et Post Byzantines, new series, vol. I (VIII). Bucharest, Académie roumaine; Heidelberg: Herlo Verlag UG, 2019 [2020].

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Translation of Part one of Išoʿbokt’s Book of Laws. In Youval Rotman (ed.), A Hebrew Anthology of Syriac Writings. Tel Aviv: Tel Aviv University Press [in Hebrew]. 

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“Muslim Involvement in Non-Muslim Political Affairs in the early Islamic Period.” In John Tolan (ed.), Medieval Minorities: Law and Multiconfessional Societies in the Middle Ages, 341-352. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. Commissioned

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“Conversion, Apostasy, and Penance: The Shifting Identities of the First Generations of Muslim Converts.” In Arietta Papaconstantinnou et al (eds.), Conversion in Late Antiquity: Christianity, Islam, and Beyond, 197-218. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2015.

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“Justice.” In Guy Stroumsa and Adam Silverstein (eds.), The Oxford Handbook for Abrahamic Religions, 137-165. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.

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“Are Gaonic Responsa a Reliable Source for the Study of Jewish Conversion to Islam? A Comparative Analysis of Legal Sources.” In Arnold E. Franklin et al (eds.), Jews, Christians and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern Times: A Festschrift in Honor of Mark R. Cohen. Leiden: Brill (Christians and Jews in Muslim Societies), 2014, pp. 119-38. 

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“Motifs of a South-Melkite Affiliation in the Annales of Saʿīd ibn Baṭrīq.” In Sofía Torallas Tovar and Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala (eds.), Cultures in Contact Transfer of Knowledge in the Mediterranean Context. 243-254. CNERU (Cordoba Near Eastern Research Unit). Beirut: CEDRAC (Centre de Documentation et de Recherches Arabes Chrétiennes) – Oriens Academic, 2013)

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“Legislating Boundaries: Gaonic Response to Islamic Challenges.” In Avinoam Rosenak and Daphna Schreiber (eds.), The Halakhah: Hidden and Visible Conceptual and Ideological Contexts, 153-166. Jerusalem. Magnes Press and Van Leer Institute, 2012 [in Hebrew] 

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       [Encyclopedia Entries]

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“Saʿīd ibn Baṭrīq.” Encyclopedia of Islam, Three. Edited by: Gudrun Krämer et al. Leiden: Brill Online, 2013. Commissioned

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“Saʿīd ibn Baṭrīq.” Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, vol. 2. Edited by David Thomas et al. Leiden: Brill, 2011, pp. 224-233. Commissioned

 

      [Reviews:]

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Yaacov Lev. The Administration of Justice in Medieval Egypt: From the Seventh to the Twelfth Century (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020, Speculum, 97/2 (2022): 530-32.

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Lena Salaymeh. The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)‏, Islamic law and Society, 25/4 (2018): 467-72. 

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Antoine Borrut and Fred M. Donner, Christians and Others in the Umayyad State (Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2016), Journal of the American Oriental Society, 138/3 (2018): 648-52. 

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Christine Caldwell Ames, Medieval Heresies: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), Speculum, 91/2 (2016): 454-56. 

 

        [Non–peer reviewed conference proceedings:]

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“The Selective Memory of a Byzantine Orthodox Patriarch: A Few Remarks on the Interplay of Narrative and Identity in the Annales of Saʿīd ibn Baṭrīq.” In Giovanni Galizia and David Shulman (eds.), Forgetting : An Interdisciplinary Conversation, 172-184. Martin Buber Society of Fellows Notebook Series; Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2015.

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“Blessed are the Peace Makers: An Ecclesiastical Definition of Authority in the Early Islamic Period.” In David Shulman (ed.), Mediations on Authority, 101-127. Martin Buber Society of Fellows Notebook Series; Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2013.

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