Articles

Scholarly Articles in English

Journal Articles & Chapters in Edited Books (in English, full list, Jan. 2026)

  • 1) "Anti-Religious Views in the Works of Ibn al-Rāwandī and Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī." Studia Orientalia 111 (2011): 131–157. (Turkish translation published 2024). → PDF → PDF of the Turkish transl
  • 2) "The Transmission of al-Madāʾinī’s Historical Material to al-Balādhurī and al-Ṭabarī: A Comparison and Analysis of Two Khabars." Studia Orientalia 114 (2013): 41–63. → PDF
  • 3) "Appendix: ʿUmar Kisrā" (with Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila). Studia Orientalia 114 (2013): 90–92. → PDF
  • 4) "New Kufic Graffiti and Inscriptions from Jordan." Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 25 (2014): 110–114. → Google Scholar
  • 5) "The Life and Deeds of ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Madāʾinī." Zeitschrift für Geschichte der arabisch-islamischen Wissenschaften 20–21 (2012–2014): 235–270. → Google Scholar
  • 6) "Al-Madāʾinī: Kitāb al-Murdifāt min Quraysh or Kitāb Man Qutila ʿanhā Zawjuhā? (GAS I: 314)." Zeitschrift für Geschichte der arabisch-islamischen Wissenschaften 20–21 (2012–2014): 271–276. → Google Scholar
  • 7) "Al-Madāʾinī’s Kitāb al-Dawla and the Death of Ibrāhīm al-Imām." In: Case Studies in Transmission, 103–130. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag (2014). → PDF
  • 8) "The Role of al-Madāʾinī’s Students in the Transmission of His Material." Der Islam 92/2 (2014): 295–340. → Google Scholar
  • 9) "Muhājirūn as a Name for the First/Seventh Century Muslims." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 74/1 (2015): 67–73. → Google Scholar
  • 10) "Who Authored al-Madāʾinī’s works?" In: Concepts of Authorship in Pre-Modern Arabic Texts, 153–166. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press (2015). → PDF
  • 11) "Three Qurʾānic Folios from a Collection in Finland." Studia Orientalia Electronica 4 (2016): 1–12. → PDF
  • 12) "Bibliographie raisonnée zur arabischen Papyrologie: Neuerscheinungen 2015 und Nachträge 2013–2014 (with L. Berkes, U. Bsees, R. Daga Portillo, E. Garosi, A. Kaplony, S. Metz, L. Reinfandt, D. Potthast, O. Singer, L. Sonego, K. Younes)." Der Islam 93/2 (2016): 539–588. → Google Scholar
  • 13) "The Ancient North Arabian and Early Islamic Arabic Graffiti: A Comparison of Formal and Thematic Features" (with Jouni Harjumäki). In: Cross-Cultural Studies in Near Eastern History and Literature, 59–94. Münster: Ugarit-Verlag (2016). → PDF
  • 14) "Sources for the Biography of the Historian Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī." In: Contacts and Interaction: Proceedings of the 27th Congress of the UEAI, 299–309. Leuven: Peeters (2017). → PDF
  • 15) "Al-Madāʾinī and the Narratives of the ʿAbbāsid Dawla." Studia Orientalia Electronica 5 (2017): 65–150. → PDF
  • 16) "The ʿAbbāsid Revolution and Its Earliest Historiography." Al-Usur al-Wusta 25 (2017): 164–166. → PDF
  • 17) "Pre-Islamic Arabia and Early Islam." In: Routledge Handbook on Early Islam, 159–176. London: Routledge (2018). → Google Scholar
  • 18) "The Last Roman Emperor, the Mahdī, and Jerusalem." In: Understanding the Spiritual Meaning of Jerusalem in Three Abrahamic Religions, 205–225. Leiden: Brill (2019). → Google Scholar
  • 19) "Who Is in, Who Is out? Early Muslim Identity through Epigraphy and Theory." Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 46 (2019): 147–246. → Google Scholar
  • 20) "Arabic Rock Inscriptions up to 750 CE." In: The Umayyad World, 411–437. London: Routledge (2021). → Google Scholar
  • 21) "Medieval Islamic World." In: Cambridge Handbook to the History of Atheism, Vol I, 159–180. Cambridge University Press (2021). → Google Scholar
  • 22) "One Community to the Exclusion of Other People – A Superordinate Identity in the Medinan Community." In: The Study of Islamic Origins, 325–376. Berlin: De Gruyter (2021). → Google Scholar
  • 23) "Slave boys in paradise? The text of the Quran and its later exegetes." In: Slavery in the Late Antique World, 150–700 CE, 298–315. Cambridge University Press (2022). → Google Scholar
  • 24) "Signs of identity in the Quran." In: Religious Identities in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, 66–91. Leiden: Brill (2022). → Google Scholar
  • 25) "Constantine the African’s Pantegni: The Evolution of Theorica, Book V" (by Outi Kaltio, assisted by Ilkka Lindstedt). Journal of Medieval Latin 32 (2022): 155–208. → Google Scholar
  • 26) "Religious Warfare and Martyrdom in Arabic Graffiti (70s–110s AH/690s–730s CE)." In: Scripts and Scripture: Writing and Religion in Arabia circa 500–700 CE, 195–222. Chicago: Oriental Institute (2022). → PDF
  • 27) "Religious Groups in the Quran." In: Common Ground and Diversity in Early Christian Thought and Study, 289–311. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (2022). → Google Scholar
  • 28) "Reconsidering Islām and Dīn in the Medinan Qur’an." Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 31 (2023): 77–95. → PDF
  • 29) "Surah 5 of the Qurʾān: The Parting of the Ways?" Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies 3 (2024): 81–112. → Google Scholar
  • 30) "The Seed of Abraham: Gentile Ethnicity in Early Christian Texts and the Quran." Advances in Ancient, Biblical, and Near Eastern Research 3/3 (2023): 253–313. → PDF
  • 31) "The Qurʾan and the putative pre-Islamic practice of female infanticide." Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association 8/1 (2023): 5–29. → DOI
  • 32) "“The scripture is an instantiation of divine discourse”: Mullā Ṣadrā’s notions on God’s speech (kalām Allāh) and the Koran." Studia Islamica 119 (2024): 97–129. → Google Scholar
  • 33) "Early Islamic Inscriptions from Northeast Jordan." Studia Orientalia Electronica 12 (2024): 35–66. → PDF
  • 34) "Historiography and the Hadiths." In: The Oxford Handbook of Hadith Studies. Oxford: OUP (forthcoming). → Google Scholar
  • 35) "La « Constitution de Médine »." In: Le Mahomet des historiens, 203–232. Paris: Cerf (2025). → Google Scholar
  • 36) "Ethical waṣiyyas on the eve of Islam." In: Crossing Ancient Sacred Landscapes. Oxford: Archaeopress (forthcoming, 2025). → Google Scholar
  • 37) "A map and list of the monotheistic inscriptions of Arabia, 400–600 CE." Hadis ve Siyer Araştırmaları 10/2 (2024): 275–283. → PDF
  • 38) "The First Muslim migrants: The hijra to Ethiopia" (in peer review). → Google Scholar
  • 39) "The issue of pre-Islamic Arabic Christian poetry revisited." Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy (2025). → PDF
  • 40) "The portrayal of the pre-Islamic Arabs as murderers of their own infants." Approaching Religion 2 (2026). → View Pre-print PDF
  • 41) "The religious groups of Mecca and Medina in the sixth–seventh centuries CE." Abdou Filali-Ansary Occasional Paper Series (forthcoming, 2026). → Google Scholar

Encyclopaedia, Online & Popular Articles

  • 1) "ʿAwāna ibn al-Ḥakam"; 2) "al-Awzāʿī"; 3) "Ibn Isḥāq". In: I.B. Tauris Biographical Dictionary of Islamic Civilization (forthcoming).
  • 4) "Writing, reading, and hearing in early Muslim-era Arabic graffiti." International Quranic Studies Association blog (2017).
  • 5) "Muhājirūn." Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (2019–6): 142–145.
  • 6) "Al-Madāʾinī." Encyclopaedia of Islam Three (2021-5): 93–95.
  • 7) "Madāʾeni." Encyclopaedia Iranica (2021).
  • 8) "The makings of early Islamic identity." Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies blog (2019).
  • 9) "What does Islam teach about atheism?" In: Atheism in Five Minutes (2022).
  • 10) "Early Islamic graffiti." Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online (2024).
  • 11) "Pre-Islamic Arabic religions: The Arabian Peninsula’s religious diversity." Ancient History Magazine 52 (2024): 50–53.
  • 12) "Epigraphy in Islamic Studies." Oxford Bibliographies (forthcoming).
  • 13) "Qur’an in early Islamic Epigraphy." Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an Online (2025).
  • 14) "The Constitution of Medina." Encyclopaedia of the Qur’an Online (forthcoming).

Review Articles

  • 1) "New Interpretations of the Origins of Islam." History: Reviews of New Books 43 (2015): 116–119.
  • 2) Review of: Haggai Mazuz, The Religious and Spiritual Life of the Jews of Medina. Studia Orientalia Electronica 4 (2016): 150–154.
  • 3) Review of: Greg Fisher (ed.), Arabs and Empires before Islam. Review of Qur’anic Research vol. 2, no. 8 (2016).
  • 4) Review of: Alessia Prioletta, Inscriptions from the Southern Highlands of Yemen. Arctos: Acta Philologica Fennica 50 (2016): 200–203.
  • 5) Review of: Scott Savran, Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative. History of Humanities (2021): 344–346.
  • 6) Review of: Ayman Ibrahim, Conversion to Islam. Journal of Near Eastern Studies (2022): 434–436.