Books
The Intellectual Career of Niẓām al-Dīn al-Nīsābūrī (Oxon, UK: Routledge, 2007); 301 + viii pp. Awarded the 2009 World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Islamic studies.
Astronomy in al-Andalus: Joseph Ibn Naḥmias’ The Light of the World. University of California Press, 2016.
Monograph-length Journal Article
“Quṭb al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī’s Hypotheses for Celestial Motions,” in Journal for the History of Arabic Science XIII (2005): 21-140
Co-edited Book
Texts in Transit in the Medieval Mediterranean
Peer Reviewed Articles
"Conceptions of the Soul in Abraham Ibn Ezra's Poetry"
Edebiyat XI (2000): 239-59
"The Portrayal of Nature in a Medieval Qur’an Commentary"
Studia Islamica XCIV (2002): 115-38
"The Response of Ottoman Religious Scholars to European Science"
Archivum Ottomanicum XXI (2003): 187-95
"The Role of Portrayals of Nature in Medieval Qur'an Commentaries”
Arabica LII (2005): 182-203
“The Solar Theory of Joseph Ibn Nahmias”
Arabic Sciences and Philosophy XV (2005): 75-108
“Science and Theodicy in Q 2:6/7,” in Jitse M. van der Meer and Scott Mandelbrote (eds.): Nature and Scripture in the Abrahamic Religions (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2008)
“Discussions of Astrology in Early Tafsīr,” Journal of Qur’ānic Studies XI (2009): 49-71
“Islamic Astronomy and Astrology,” in Robert Irwin (ed.) New Cambridge History of Islam (Cambridge University Press, 2010), vol. 4: pp. 589-613
“Islamic Astronomy and Cosmology,” in David Lindberg and Michael Shank (eds.): Cambridge History of Science, vol. 5 (Cambridge University Press, 2011): 109-138
“An Astronomical Treatise by Mūsā Jālīnūs alias Moses Galeano,” Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism X/2 (2011): 315-53
“Natural Theology and the Qur’ān,” Journal of Qur’ānic Studies XV (2013): pp. 1-22
“What Was the Purpose of Astronomy in Ījī’s Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī ‘ilm al-kalām?” in Judith Pfeiffer (ed.): Tabriz after the Mongol Conquest (Brill, 2013): pp. 201-29
“A Scholarly Intermediary Between the Ottoman Empire and Renaissance Europe,” Isis (3/2014): 32-57