Ali Anooshahr teaches World History as well as comparative pre-modern Islamic history at UCDavis. He received his B.A. in Humanities from the University of Texas at Austin (1994), and received his MA and PhD in Islamic History from the University of California, Los Angeles (2005).

He has taught at UCLA, Santa Monica College, Cal State LA, Cal State San Marcos, and Saint Xavier University.

His publications include: “‘Utbi and the Ghaznavids at the Foot of the Mountain” Iranian Studies 2005 [271-292]; “Mughal historians and the memory of the Islamic conquest” Indian Economic and Social History Review 2006 [275-300], and “The King Who Would be Man: The Gender Roles of the Warrior King in Early Mughal History” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society October 2008 (forthcoming).

His book called The Ghazi Sultans and the Frontiers of Islam (forthcoming, Routledge 2008) looking at memory, self-fashioning, and intertextuality in the writings of three ghazi (holy warrior) kings of the pre-modern period—viz. Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna, Babur {Founder of the Mughal Dynasty}, and the Ottoman Sultan Murad II.