Research Interests: The relationship between power, religion, and the elite in late medieval and early modern Iran, Anatolia, and the Balkans; the Timurid, Safavid, and Ottoman Historiography; Sufi Networks in West Asia, 1200s–1550s; Religiosity in Late Medieval Iran under the Ilkhanids and Timurids; Sectarian Consciousness in the Ottomans and Safavids, 1450s–1580s; Sunni, Shiite, Qizilbash Identities.