Books
The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018. Paperback ed., 2020.
(edited with Frederic Clark) Thinking in the Past Tense: Eight Conversations. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Journal articles
“Race-Making Festivities in Brandenburg-Prussia, 1652-1750.” Past and Present, no. 265 (November 2024): 3–56.
“A Dragoman and a Scholar: French Knowledge-Making in the Mediterranean from Old Regime to Bonaparte.“ Journal of Modern History 94 (2022): 247–287.
(w. J. Loop) “The Qur’an in Comparison and the Birth of ‘scriptures.’” Journal of Qur’anic Studies 20 (2018): 148–173.
“How to Organise the Orient: D’Herbelot and the Bibliothèque Orientale.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 79 (2016): 213–261.
“The Qur’an Translations of Marracci and Sale.” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 76 (2013): 93–130.
(w. H. Pfeifer) “Turquerie: Culture in Motion, 1650–1750.” Past and Present, no. 221 (2013): 75–118.
“Conceiving the Republic of Mankind: The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots.” History of European Ideas 38 (2012): 550–569.
Chapters
“Beyond East and West” in Ann M. Blair and Nicholas Popper, eds., New Horizons for Early Modern European Scholarship. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
“‘Away With All the Greeks:’ Ancients, Moderns and Arabs in Étienne Fourmont’s ‘Oratio de Lingua Arabica’ (1715)’” in Jill Kraye and Jan Loop, eds., Scholarship Between Europe and the Levant: Essays in Honour of Alastair Hamilton. Leiden, Brill, 2020.