Contact
Primary Phone: (587) 700-8683
Secondary Phone: (403) 220-3241
School of Languages, Linguistics, Literatures, and
The University of Calgary, Craigie Hall C 205
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary
AB
T2N 1N4
Canada
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
Islamic Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Arabic
Medieval
Iranian Studies
7th-13th Centuries
History Of Religion
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Armenia
Islamic World
Iran
Specialties
History Of Early Shi'ism, Ghulat, Islamic Thought
History Of The Middle East
Religion, Culture, And Society
Languages
Armenian (native)
Arabic (fluent)
Persian (fluent)
English (fluent)
Russian (fluent)
Syriac (elementary)
Latin (elementary)
French (intermediate)
German (intermediate)
Turkish (elementary)
Education
PhD
| 2012
| Religious Studies
| Yale
MPhil
| 2008
| Religious Studies
| Yale University
MA (Dubl.)
| 2003
| Medieval Studies
| Central European University
Abstracts
Bankers and Politics: The Kufan Money-Changers in the Eighth Century and Their Role in the Shiite Community
A New Source for the Study of Early Shi'a Ghulat
Kitab al-azilla, Nusayri Literature, and the Transmission of Texts Between Iraq and Syria in the Tenth Century
The “Ghulat Corpus” and its Authors
The Nusayris in Medieval Syria: What Can a 13th c. Theological Debate Tell us about Them?
Of wine, Sex, and other Abominations: Accusations of Libertinism and their Cultural Meaning in 8th-9th-century Iraq
Constructing Sunnis: the making of a heresiological category
The Nusayris at the Turn of the 11th Century: A Spotlight
