He specializes in the Middle East and the Islamic world. His current book project analyzes early Islamic historiography of the pre-Islamic period, particularly portrayals of encounters between the Arab peoples and representatives of the Persian Sasanian dynasty, as comprising a didactic narrative whose purpose was to justify the Arab-Islamic conquest of Iran in the eyes of a contemporaneous audience. Scott’s teaching repertoire includes a wide range of courses on pre-modern and modern subjects both within and outside the context of Islamic history, including The Age of Globalization, The Ancient World from Prehistory to the Middle Ages, The Middle East from the Rise of Islam to 1800, The Middle East from 1800 to the Present, The Arab-Israeli Conflict, Women in Islamic History, and The History of Kazakhstan. (Source : https://nu-kz.academia.edu/ScottSavran)