Monographs

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)

Edited Volumes

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).

Peer-reviewed Articles

“Microhistory As Industrial History – Climate, Sugar Capitalism, and Labour in Egypt, 1863-1879.” Past & Present, available online (scheduled August 2025).

“Acquisition By Use in Islamic Law: Ihya’ al-Mawat in Three Legal Opinions from Late Ottoman Egypt.” The Arabist, 47, forthcoming.

with Rezk Nuri, “The Probate Regime – Enchanted Bureaucracy, Islamic Law, and The Capital of Orphans in Nineteenth-Century Egypt.” Law and History Review, 40, 4 (2022), 597–624 (open access).

“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.

with †Kathryn Schwartz, “An Egyptian Shaykh’s Literary World: Digitally Reconstructing Islamic Print Culture Through Mustafa Salama al-Najjari’s Books, Cairo 1870.” 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): 743–87.

“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, n. 2 (2017): 262-279.

with Mercedes Volait, “Affairisme dynastique et dandysme au Caire vers 1900: Le Club des Princes et la formation d’un quartier du divertissement rue ‘Imad al-Din,” 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.

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

“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, 175–97. Leiden: Brill, 2020.

“The Muslim Bourgeoisie and Philanthropy in the Late Ottoman Empire,” in The Global Bourgeoisie, ed. Christof Dejung et al (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019), 207-228.

“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 – The Time of Joseph Haydn. From Sultan Mahmud I to Mahmud II (r.1730-1839) (eds. Michael Hüttler and Hans Ernst Weidinger) (Vienna: Hollitzer, 2014), 539-564.

“Cultural Policy in the Late Ottoman Empire? The Palace and the Public Theatres in Nineteenth-Century Istanbul,” in Kulturpolitik und Theatre – Die kontinentalen Imperien in Europa im Vergleich (ed. Philipp Ther) (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2012), 127-149.

“Niqāṭ ḥawla al-siyāsa al-thaqāfiyya li-ḥukūmat ʿUrābī – mustaqbal al-masraḥ al-ʿarabī fī Māyū 1882” (Notes on the Cultural Policy of the ʿUrābī Government – the Future of Arab theatre in May 1882), 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 (eds. Oliver Müller, Philipp Ther, Jutta Toelle) (Wien: Oldenburg Verlag, 2010), 263-276.

“The ethics of knowledge: Religio Academici reconsidered,” in Religio Academici (eds. Andras Szigeti, Peter Losonczi) (Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2009), 215-239.

“The Nefertiti-paradigm,” Holmi, 8 (2006), 1075-1087 (in Hungarian).

“The orthographical canonisation of the Qur’an,” in A változatosság dicsérete (Laudation of variety) (ed. Tibor Bárány) (Budapest: Collegium Erasmus, 2005).