[2] His first monograph, Nature and Empire in Ottoman Egypt (2011), was a part of the Cambridge University Press series Studies in Environment and History.
[3] Based on his doctoral dissertation, the book argues for using an environmental lens to understand relations between the Ottoman Empire and the province of Egypt.
[10] Under Osman's Tree, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2017, received critical acclaim[11] and was awarded the M. Fuat Köprülü Book Prize of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association.
[14] Cornell Fleischer, Cemal Kafadar, and Sanjay Subrahmanyam identified numerous factual and interpretational errors and described the work as a "tissue of falsehoods, half-truths, and absurd speculations.
[18][19][20] Ali Balci found the work to contain "some excessive comments for the sake of making Selim a part of the global history.