Journal Articles

The Political Role of the Historian | Contemporary European History 32, 1 (2023), 38-45.

Globalizing Europe: European History after the Global Turn | Annales  76, 4 (2021), 645-667. (French version: Globaliser L’Europe).

The Global Authoritarian Moment and the Revolt against Empire | American Historical Review 124, 3 (2019), 843-877.

Nationalist Internationalism in the Global Age | Contemporary European History 28, 1 (2019), 77-81.

The Futures of Global History | Journal of Global History 13, 1 (2018), 1-21. (with R. Drayton)

The ‘Muslim Question’ in Hitler’s Balkans | Historical Journal 56, 4 (2013), 1007-1039.

Islam and Germany’s War in the Soviet Borderlands, 1941-1945 | Journal of Contemporary History 48, 4 (2013), 784-820. (Awarded the Walter Laqueur Prize)

Islam and the European Empires: Historiographical Essay | Historical Journal 55, 3 (2012), 831-856.

The German Other: Shah Nasir al-Din’s Perceptions of Difference and Gender during his Visits to Germany, 1873-1889 | Iranian Studies 44, 4 (2011), 563-579.

Qajar Shahs in Imperial Germany | Past and Present 213, 1 (2011), 191-235.
(Awarded the Essay Prize of the German History Society and the Royal Historical Society)

Book Chapters

Global Revolution, in David Motadel (ed.) | Revolutionary World: Global Upheaval in the Modern Age (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), 1-37.

Worlds of the Bourgeoisie, in David Motadel, Jürgen Osterhammel, and Christof Dejung (eds.) | The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press,  2019), 1-39.

Worlds of a Muslim Bourgeoisie, in David Motadel, Jürgen Osterhammel, and Christof Dejung (eds.) | The Global Bourgeoisie: The Rise of the Middle Classes in the Age of Empire (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2019), 229-250.

Islamic Revolutionaries and the End of Empire, in Martin Thomas and Andrew S. Thompson (eds.) | The Oxford Handbook of the End of Empires (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).

The Muslim World in the Second World War, in Richard Bosworth and Joe Maiolo (eds.) | The Cambridge History of the Second World War, Vol. 2: Politics and Ideology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 605-627.

Veiled Survivors: Jews, Roma, and Muslims in the Years of the Holocaust, in Nikolaus Wachsmann and Jan Rüger (eds.) | Rewriting German History (Sir Richard J. Evans Festschrift) (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 288-305.

The Making of Muslim Communities in Western Europe, 1914-1939, in Umar Ryad and Götz Nordbruch (eds.) | Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe: Muslim Activists and Thinkers (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 13-43.

Iran and the Aryan Myth, in Ali M. Ansari (ed.) | Perceptions of Iran: History, Myths and Nationalism from Medieval Persia to the Islamic Republic (London: I.B. Tauris, 2013), 119-145.

Reviews and Review Articles