
Selected Publications:
Said Reza Huseini, “Between the Arabs and the Turks: Household, Conversion and Power Dynamics in early Islamic Bactria (700–772 CE),” in The Ties that Bind: Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire, edited by Petra M. Sijpesteijn and Edmund Hayes (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
Said Reza Huseini, “Thinking in Arabic, writing in Sogdian: Arab Sogdian Diplomatic Relation in the early eighth-century,” in From the Ruler of Samarqand to the Andalusian “Law of the Muslims”: Sogdian, Greek and Arabic Documents and Manuscripts from the Islamicate World and Beyond, edited by Andreas Kaplony and Matt Malczycki (Leiden: Brill, 2022), 67–87. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004527874_004
Said Reza Huseini, “The Rebellion of Ḥārith b. Surayj (116–128/734–746): A Local Perspective,” in Acts of Rebellion and Revolt in the Early Islamic Caliphate, ed. Petra Sijpesteijn and Alon Dar, special issue, Al-ʿUsur al-Wusṭā 30 (2022): 516–53. https://doi.org/10.52214/uw.v30i.9040
Jos Gommans and Said Reza Huseini, “Neoplatonic Kingship in the Islamic World: Akbar’s Millennial History,” in Sacred Kingship in World History: Between Immanence and Transcendence, edited by Azfar Moin and Alan Strathern (Columbia University Press, 2022), 192–222. DOI: 10.7312/moin20416-010
Jos Gommans and Said Reza Huseini, “Neoplatonism and the Pax Mongolica in the Making of Ṣulḥ-i Kull: A View from Akbar’s Millennial History,” Modern Asian Studies 56 (2022): 870–901. DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X21000044
Said Reza Huseini, “The Muqaddam Represented in the pre-Mongol Persian Documents from Ghur,” AFGHANISTAN 4, no. 2 (2021): 91–113.
Said Reza Huseini, “Acts of Protection represented in Bactrian Documents,” Annales Islamologiques 54 (2021): 107–124.
Said Reza Huseini, “The Idea and Practice of Justice Represented in Bactrian Documents,” Association for Iranian Studies, Newsletter 41, no. 2 (2020): 28–31.
Said Reza Huseini, “Medieval Tibet in Perso-Islamic Sources,” Journal of Himalayan and Central Asian Studies 18, no. 4, CHINA SPECIAL (2013): 251–283.
Said Reza Huseini, “Destruction of Bamiyan Buddha: Taliban Iconoclasm and Hazara Response,” Journal of Himalayan and Central Asian Studies 16, no. 2, BAMIYAN SPECIAL (2012): 15–50.