He is the author of Islam and the English Enlightenment, 1670-1840 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), which shows how British eighteenth-century literature was influenced by international events in the Muslim world, using them to contest and redefine British concepts of liberty. Funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in 2015-16, he is now working on a second book titled England Re-Oriented: How Asian Travelers from India Imagined the West, 1750-1820, which considers how Indian and Asian writers not only resisted, interrogated, and adapted the racial stereotypes Britons imposed on them, but also exploited these stereotypes to articulate their own vision of a Europe commensurable with Asia.