Publications

Selected Publications

Monographs, articles, and other writing

Edited Volumes

Látvány/színház (Spectacle/Theatre — Genre, body, performativity)
Ed. by Ádám Mestyán and Eszter Horváth. Budapest: L'Harmattan, 2006 (in Hungarian).

Peer-reviewed articles

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.
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 63, no. 5–6 (2020): 743–787.
Comparative Studies in Society and History 60, 2 (2018): 415–445.
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 37, no. 2 (2017): 262–279.
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.

Encyclopaedia entries

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.

Articles and chapters in edited volumes

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.
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.

Digital publications & projects

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.
2017–2022. Co-director with †Kathryn Schwartz. The Online Reconstruction and Visualization of a Nineteenth-Century Arabic Library. Zenodo.
2009–2020. With Till Grallert et al. (Version v1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo.

Book reviews

Ahmed El Shamsy, Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed An Intellectual Tradition (Princeton, 2020)
Middle Eastern Literatures, early access.
Daniel Stolz, The Lighthouse and the Observatory: Islam, Science, and Empire in Late Ottoman Egypt (Cambridge, 2018)
Isis 110, 3 (2019): 633–634.
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).
Elisabeth Clegg, Art, Design, and Architecture in Central Europe 1890–1920 (Yale, 2006)
East-Central Europe online, 2007–, published in hardcopy 2009/1.

Translations & popular writing

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).
Global Urban History, 13 February 2017.
Majallat al-Muqtaṭaf al-Miṣriyya, 30 July 2015 (in Arabic).
Hazine website, March 2014.