The Persianate World: The Frontiers of Euroasian Lingua Franca ed. by Niel Green, 2019
The Persinate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere , 2018
This is a revised text of any interview with Professor Ali Mirsepassi conducted in 2015 for a documentary about Ahmad Fardid (released in 2016). This revised interview, in a collection of interviews with people who mostly knew Fardid in person, was edited by Dr. Mirsepassi and published as “Iran’s Troubled Modernity” (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019). A sequel to this interview/article was presented in 2016 in a panel on Ahmad Fardid in the International Biannual Conference of Iranian Studies in the University of Vienna entitled: “Fardid of All Seasons.” I am planning to publish it in the form of an journal article.
The Layered Heart: Essays on Persian Poetry, A Celebration in Honor of Dick Davis, ed. A. Seyed-Ghorab , 2018
This chapter covers the evolution of Qajar historiography with an emphasis on the shaping of the Iranian national narrative and search for historical continuity from ancient to modern.
“Iranian Identity Boundaries: An Introduction,” Iran Facing Others: Identity Boundaries in Historical Perspective, co-edited with F. Vejdani (Palgrave-MacMillan, New York, 2011), pp. 1-36.
This is the PDF of my Introduction to C.J. Wills, In the Land of the Lion and Sun published in the “Persia Observed” series in 2004. It offers a content analysis of this important travel account by a physician of the Indo-European Telegraph Department who was stationed in Iran between 1866 and 1881.
Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shi`ism, I.B. Tauris, London and New York., 2009
“Court Patronage and Public Space: Abu’l-Hasan Sani’ al-Mulk and the Art of Persianizing the Other in Qajar Iran,” Court Cultures in the Muslim World, Seven to Nineteenth Centuries, eds. A. Fuess and J. Hartung (Routledge Taylor and Francis Group, London and New York, 2011), pp. 408-44.
“Nuqtavi Messianic Agnostics of Iran and the Shaping of the Doctrine of ‘Universal Conciliation’ (sulh-i kull) in Mughal India,” in Norm, Transgression and Identity in Islam: Diversity of Approaches and Interpretations (Norme, transgression et identité en Islam: diversité d’approches et d’interprétationsi) ed. O. Mir-Kasimov (Brill, Leiden, 2014), 367-92.
“Divided Patrimony, Tree of Royal Power and Fruit of Vengeance: Political Paradigms and Iranian Self-Image in the Story of Faridun in the Shahnama,” in Shahnama Studies, ed. Charles Melville, Center of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Cambridge University, 2006, pp. 49-70.
“Qajar Iran: A Historical Overview,” The Qajar Epoch: Paintings from the Royal Persian Courts, ed. L. Diba (I.B. Tauris Publishers and Brooklyn Museum of Art, London and New York, 1998), pp. 14-29.
Norm, Transgression and Identity in Islam: Diversity of Approaches and Interpretations (Norme, transgression et identité en Islam: diversité d’approches et d’interprétationsi) ed. O. Mir-Kasimov (Brill Publishers, Leiden and Boston) , 2014
The Persian Revolution, 1905-1909, 1995
A new introduction to Browne’s “The Persian Revolution”
