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منشورات
صفحة ORCID صفحة Academia.edu

كتب

Modern Arab Kingship — The Remaking of the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023.
Arab Patriotism — The Ideology and Culture of Power in Late Ottoman Egypt
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017.

كتب محرَّرة

Primordial History, Print Capitalism, and Egyptology in Nineteenth-Century Cairo: Muṣṭafā Salāma al-Naǧǧārī's The Garden of Ismail's Praise
Cairo: Ifao, 2021.
Látvány/színház (Spectacle/Theatre — Genre, body, performativity)
Ed. by Ádám Mestyán and Eszter Horváth. Budapest: L'Harmattan, 2006 (in Hungarian).

مقالات محكّمة

"The Constitution of the Syrian Kingdom (1919–1920) and the French Archival Question"
International Journal of Middle East Studies, published online 29 September 2026 (First View).
Open Access
"Micro-Numerals: Unit Fractions, Carats, and the Arabic Culture of Accountancy, 900s–1900s"
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 69, 3–4 (2026): 548–628.
"Microhistory As Industrial History — Environment, Sugar Capitalism, and Labour in Egypt, 1863–1879"
Past & Present 268 (2025): 143–180.
"Acquisition By Use in Islamic Law: Ihya' al-Mawat in Three Legal Opinions from Late Ottoman Egypt"
The Arabist 47 (2024): 79–93.
"The Probate Regime — Enchanted Bureaucracy, Islamic Law, and The Capital of Orphans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt"
With Rezk Nuri. Law and History Review 40, 4 (2022): 597–624.
"From Administrative to Political Order? Global Legal History, the Organic Law, and the Constitution of Mandate Syria, 1925–1930"
Journal of Global History 17, 2 (2022): 292–311.
"An Egyptian Shaykh's Literary World: Digitally Reconstructing Islamic Print Culture Through Mustafa Salama al-Najjari's Books, Cairo 1870"
With †Kathryn Schwartz. Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association 9, no. 2 (2022): 85–90.
"Land Privatization in Islamic Law? The Case of Irsad in Egypt, 1850–1950"
The Arabist 44 (2022): 87–104.
"Muslim Dualism? — Inter-Imperial History and Austria-Hungary in Ottoman Political Thought, 1867–1921"
Contemporary European History 30, 4 (2021): 478–496.
"Seeing Like a Khedivate: Taxing Endowed Agricultural Land, Proofs of Ownership, and the Land Administration in Egypt, 1869"
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 63, no. 5–6 (2020): 743–787.
"Pious Endowments: Land and Women in Late Ottoman Egypt — Reading the Grand Mufti's Opinions, 1848–49"
The Arabist 41 (2020): 85–100.
"Domestic Sovereignty, A'yan Developmentalism, and Global Microhistory in Modern Egypt"
Comparative Studies in Society and History 60, 2 (2018): 415–445.
"Upgrade? Power and Sound during Ramadan and 'Id al-Fitr in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Arab Provinces"
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 37, no. 2 (2017): 262–279.
"Affairisme dynastique et dandysme au Caire vers 1900: Le Club des Princes et la formation d'un quartier du divertissement rue 'Imad al-Din"
With Mercedes Volait. Annales Islamologiques 50 (2016): 55–106 (in French).
"Preface — Ignac Goldziher's Report on the Books Brought from the Orient for the Hungarian Academy of Sciences"
Journal of Semitic Studies 60, 2 (2015): 443–480.
"Arabic Theatre in Early Khedivial Culture, 1868–1872: James Sanua Revisited"
International Journal of Middle East Studies 46, 1 (2014): 117–137.
"Materials for a History of Hungarian Academic Orientalism: The Case of Gyula Germanus, 1884–1979"
Die Welt des Islams 54 (2014): 4–33.
"Power and Music in Cairo: Azbakiyya"
Urban History 44, 4 (2013): 681–704.
"Arabic Lexicography and European Aesthetics: the Origin of Fann"
Muqarnas — An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World 28 (2011): 69–100.

مداخل موسوعية

"Fuad I"
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three. Leiden: Brill, 1: 22–24.
"Khedive"
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three. Leiden: Brill, 2020, 2: 70–71.
"Tawfiq Muhammad al-Bakri"
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three. Leiden: Brill, 2019, 6: 19–21.

مقالات وفصول في مجلدات محرَّرة

"Hārūn Al-Rašīd, the Arabian Nights, and Politics on the Arabic Stage, 1850s–1920s"
In The Thousand and One Nights: Sources and Transformations in Literature, Art, and Science, edited by William Granara and Ibrahim Akel, 175–197. Leiden: Brill, 2020.
"The Muslim Bourgeoisie and Philanthropy in the Late Ottoman Empire"
In The Global Bourgeoisie, ed. Christof Dejung et al., 207–228. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.
"Muḥammad Yūsuf Najm — A Maker of the Nahḍa"
al-Abḥāth 64 (2016): 97–118.
"'I Have To Disguise Myself' — Gyula Germanus and Pilgrimage as Cultural Capital, 1935–1965"
In Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empires, ed. Amr Ryad. Leiden: Brill, 2016.
"Sound, Military Music, and Opera in Egypt during the Rule of Mehmet Ali Pasha (r. 1805–1848)"
In Ottoman Empire and European Theatre, Vol. II, 539–564. Vienna: Hollitzer, 2014.
"Cultural Policy in the Late Ottoman Empire? The Palace and the Public Theatres in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul"
In Kulturpolitik und Theatre, ed. Philipp Ther, 127–149. Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2012.
"Niqāṭ ḥawla al-siyāsa al-thaqāfiyya li-ḥukūmat ʿUrābī (Notes on the Cultural Policy of the ʿUrābī Government)"
Rūznāme — Yearbook of the Egyptian National Archives (2010): 203–214 (in Arabic).
"From Private Entertainment to Public Education: Opera in the late Ottoman Empire"
In Oper und Geschichte, 263–276. Wien: Oldenburg Verlag, 2010.
"The ethics of knowledge: Religio Academici reconsidered"
In Religio Academici, 215–239. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2009.
"The Nefertiti-paradigm"
Holmi 8 (2006): 1075–1087 (in Hungarian).
"The orthographical canonisation of the Qur'an"
In A változatosság dicsérete. Budapest: Collegium Erasmus, 2005.

منشورات ومشاريع رقمية

"News of Cairo ("Digital Cairo")"
2022–2024. Lead PI, co-directors Hugh Cayless and Mercedes Volait, part of La fabrique du Caire moderne project, supported by NEH and Ifao. Zenodo.
"La fabrique du Caire moderne"
2018–present. Research blog (carnet Hypothèses); same project as News of Cairo, hosted by the Institut français d'archéologie orientale (Ifao).
"Project Naggari"
2017–2022. Co-director with †Kathryn Schwartz. The Online Reconstruction and Visualization of a Nineteenth-Century Arabic Library. Zenodo.
"Jara'id: A Chronology of Arabic Periodicals (1800–1929)"
2009–2020. With Till Grallert et al. (Version v1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo.

مراجعات كتب

"Ahmed El Shamsy, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed An Intellectual Tradition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020)"
Middle Eastern Literatures 26, 3 (2023): 378–381.
"Daniel Stolz, The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt (Cambridge, 2018)"
Isis 110, 3 (2019): 633–634.
"István Ormos, Egy életút állomásai: Kmoskó Mihály, 1876–1931 (Budapest: Magyar Egyháztörténeti Enciklopédia Munkaközösség, 2017)"
Budapest Review of Books (Budapesti Könyvszemle) 31, 1–2 (2019): 97–98.
"Matthew Ellis, Desert Borderland: The Making of Modern Egypt and Libya (Stanford, 2018)"
International Journal of Middle East Studies 51, 2 (2019): 325–327.
"Ali Yaycioglu, Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions (Stanford, 2016)"
The Hungarian Historical Review 6, no. 1 (2017): 243–246.
"Liat Kozma, Policing Egyptian Women — Sex, Law, and Medicine in Khedivial Egypt (Syracuse, 2011)"
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 40, no. 4 (2013): 469–470.
"Julia Clancy-Smith, Mediterraneans (Berkeley, 2011)"
European Review of History 19, no. 3 (2012): 461–463.
"Imaging the Mediterranean — Reviews of Ian Chambers, Mediterranean Crossings and Mediterranean Passages"
European Review of History 18, 2 (2011): 267–270.
"István Ormos, Max Herz Pasha (Cairo: IFAO, 2009)"
Élet és Irodalom, October 2009 (in Hungarian).
"The Morality of Symbolic Geography"
Review of East-Central Europe, nos. 1–2 (2005). Budapest Review of Books, 3 (2008) (in Hungarian).
"Elisabeth Clegg, Art, Design, and Architecture in Central Europe 1890–1920 (Yale, 2006)"
East-Central Europe online, 2007–, published in hardcopy 2009/1.

ترجمات وكتابات عامة

"The Arab Kingdom"
Aeon, 7 August 2023.
"Ignaz Goldziher, Report on the Books Brought from the Orient for the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences"
Translated from Hungarian. In Journal of Semitic Studies 60, 2 (2015).
"Was Cairo's grand opera house a tool of cultural imperialism?"
Aeon, 25 April 2018.
"Global Ottoman: The Istanbul-Cairo Axis"
Global Urban History, 13 February 2017.
"Al-Masraḥ al-ʿArabī fī al-Thaqāfa al-Khidiwiyya: Iʿādat al-Naẓar ilā James Sanua"
Majallat al-Muqtaṭaf al-Miṣriyya, 30 July 2015 (in Arabic).
"Dar al-Mahfuzat al-ʿUmumiyya"
Hazine website, March 2014.