Dr M. A. H. Parsa is an Assistant Professor of Imperial and World History at Ashoka University in India. His primary focus is on the post-Mongol empires and the Turco-Persianate world. Currently, he's working on the emergence of popular sovereignty in eighteenth-century Iran, rooted in the Turco-Mongol tradition of consultative rule and Perso-Islamic mystical thought. He has published several articles on Nader Shah's imperial inscriptions in 'Ajami/Qizilbash Turkic. He completed his PhD at SOAS University of London in 2022 on the post-Safavid and Naderid history of Iran. He was a lecturer at NYU London and the University of St Andrews in Scotland before taking up his current position at Ashoka University.