Books
The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell
in Islamic Culture , Columbia University Press, 2009. Awarded
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009
The Houris of Islamic Paradise: A Global
History (in progress)
Select Articles
"Beauty in the Garden: Aesthetics and the
Wildan Mukhalladun, Ghilman, and Hur" Roads to Paradise.
Eds. Sebastian Guenther and Todd Lewis. Leiden: Brill.
(forthcoming)
"Early Views of Paradise in Islam"
Religion Compass. Blackwell Compass. March 2010. V. 4.
Issue 3: 166-175.
"American Visions of the Houri" Muslim
World Vol. 97. No. 1. Jan. 2007: 79-92.