Publications

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Along with a number of works in both English and Kazakh, I have published several recent monographs and edited volumes, including (click on underlined titles for weblinks):

Moses, Muhammad and Nature’s God in Early American Religious-Legal History, 1640-1830: A Global Crosscultural Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

‘Pre-Islamic Survivals’ in Muslim Central Asia: Tsarist, Soviet and Post-Soviet Ethnography in World Historical Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).

Editor, 21st-Century Narratives of World History: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, w/ a Foreword by Peter Stearns (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017). 

Co-editor with Anver Emon, Reason, Revelation and Law in Islamic and Western Theory and History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021).

Along with the above, some of my most cited & accessed works include:

"‘Western’ and ‘White Civilization’: White Nationalism and Eurocentrism at the Crossroads," in 21st-Century Narratives of World History: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives, pp. 35-80.

“The Historical Relation of Islamic and Western Law,” in Reason, Revelation and Law in Islamic and Western Theory and History, pp. 25-43.

"(Rvw of) Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane, by S. Frederick Starr," Journal of Religious History, Vol 39, No 2 (June 2015): 327-329.

"(Extended) Review of The Great Game, 1856-1907: Russo-British Relations in Central and East Asia, by Evgeny Sergeev," Reviews in History, June 2014 (review no. 1611).

Current research & publication projects include:

Moses, Muhammad and Their Laws in the History of American Slavery & Segregation

Legacies of the Abrahamic Divine Law Traditions in the Continuing Debates over Slavery & Segregation in World History

Toward Disentangling Western & White History & Identity: Christianity, White Nationalism & Eurocentrism at the Crossroads (which builds upon my previous chapter in 21st-Century Narratives of World History on "‘Western’ and ‘White Civilization’: White Nationalism and Eurocentrism at the Crossroads").

(Click here for my Amazon Author Page along with a select listing of my works in university & public libraries around the world)