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Books
Refashioning Iran : Orientalism, Europology, and Nationalist Historiography ( Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Publishers in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford, 2001).
Reviewd by:
Daniel Martin Varisco, H-Gender-MidEast (September 2002),
Mansour Bonakdarian, Radical History, 92 (Spring 2005)

Tajaddud-i Bumi va Bazandishi-i Tarikh [Vernacular Mdernity and the Rethinking of History] (Tehran, Iran: Nashr-i Tarikh-i Iran, 2003).
Reviewd by:
Husayn Taymuri, "Safar Namah'ha va Tajaddud," Sharq, 202 (30 May 2004/10 Khurdad 1383),
Iraj Afshar, Tazahha va parahha-yi Iranshinasi," Bukhara, 20
Book Chapters
"The Homeless Texts of Persianate Modernity," in Iran--Between Tradition and Modernity, ed. Ramin Jahanbegloo (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2004).

"Orientalist Studies and Its Amnesia," in Antinomies of Modernity: Essays on Orientalism, National, and Race, eds. Vasant Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001).

"Eroticizing Europe," in Hafez Farmayan Festschrift, ed. Elton L. Daniel (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001).

"Women of the West Imagined: The Farangi Other and the Emergence of the Women Question in Iran," in Identity Politics and Women: Cultural Reassertions and Feminisms in International Perspective, edited by Valentine Moghadam (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994), 98-120.
Articles
"Tajaddud-i Ikhtira'i, Tamadun-i 'Ariyati va Inqilab-i Ruhani" [Inventing Modernity, Borrowing Modernity], Iran Namah xx:2-3 (Spring/Summer 2002).

"From Patriotism to Matriotism: A Tropological Study of Iranian Nationalism, 1870-1909" International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 34 (2002), 217-238.

"Tau Vatan Bishnas Ay Khajah Nukhust: Digardisi-i 'Vatan' va Paydayish-I Nafs-i Mashrutah-khwah," in Pazhuhish-ha-yi Iranshinasi: Namvarah-'i Duktur Mahmud Afshar, ed. Iraj Afshar and Karim Isfahaniyan (Tehran: Bunyad-I Mawqufat-I Duktur Mahmud Afshar, 1381/2002), jild 13, 354-411.

"Frontline Mysticism and Eastern Spirtuality," ISIM Newsletter 9 (January 2002), 13 and 38. also see here.

"Aspects of Modernity: On Iranian History and Gender," Iranian.com (December 18, 2001), 1-7.

"The Homeless Texts of Persianate Modernity," Cultural Dynamics, (November 2001).

"Anti-Baha'ism and Islamism in Iran 1941-1955 = Baha'I sitizi va Islamgarati dar Iran, 1941-1955," Iran Nameh, 19:1/2 (Winter/Spring 2001), 79-124.

"Paykarmandi va Farrahmandi-i Vatan [Anthromorphizing and Empowering the Homeland, Part I]," Mehregan: An Iranian Journal of Culture and Politics, 8:4 (Winter 2000), 162-177.

"Paykar-i Madaranah-'i Vatan [Anthromorphizing and Empowering the Homeland, Part II]," Mehregan: An Iranian Journal of Culture and Politics, 9:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2000), 202-216.

"Going Public: Patriotic and Matriotic Homeland in Iranian Nationalist Discourses" Strategires, 13: 2 (2000), 175-200. Also see: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals

"Contested Memories of Pre-Islamic Iran" Medieval History Journal 3 (1999).

"Modernity, Heterotopia, and Homeless Texts" Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East xviii:2 (1998/99), 2-13.

"Women of the West Imagined: Persian Occidentalism, Euro-eroticism, and Modernity," CIRA Bulletin 13:1 (March 1997), 19-22.

"Nigarish shahvatbar-i Iraniyan bah Zanan-i Farang [The Erotic Gaze and European Women]," Mehregan 5:3-4 (Fall 1996/Spring 1997), 124-144.

"Nigaran-i Zan-i Farang: Bah Azadi Tafakhur Darand va bah Khud'sari Tashakur," Nimeye Digar: Persian Language Feminist Journal 2:3 (Winter 1997), 3-71.

"Contested Memories: Narrative Structures and Allegorical Meanings of Iran's Pre-Islamic History," Iranian Studies 29: 1-2 (1996), 149-175.

"Orientalism's Genesis Amnesia," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 16:1 (Spring 1996), 1-14.

"Crafting History and Fashioning Iran: The Reconstruction of Iranian Identity in Modernist Historical Narratives" [Tarikh'pardazi va Iran'arayi: Baz'sazi-yi Huvviyat-i Irani dar Guzarish-i Tarikh] Iran Nameh 12:4 (1994), xxix-xxx, 583-628.

"Rediscovering Munshi Newal Kishore (1836-1895)," South Asia Library Notes and Queries 29 (1993), 14-22, 44.

"Imagining Western Women: Occidentalism and Euro-eroticism," Radical America 24:3 (1993), 73-87.

"Refashioning Iran: Language and Culture During the Constitutional Revolution,"Iranian Studies 23:1-4 (1992), 77-101.

"A Woman Was, A Woman Was Not: Reading The Necessity of the Veil and The Depravity of Unveiling" [Zani Bud, Zani Nabud: Baz'Khwani-i Vujub-i Niqab va Mafasid-i Sufur], Nimeye Digar: Persian Language Feminist Journal 14 (Spring 1991), pp. xiv-xvi, 77-110.

"The Persian Gaze and Women of the Occident," South Asia Bulletin 9:1-2 (1991), 211-31.

"The Constitutionalist Imaginary in Iran and the Ideals of the French Revolutions" [Asar-i Agahi-i az Inqilab-i Faransah dar Shikl'giri-i Angarah-'i Mashrutiyat dar Iran], Iran Nameh: A Persian Journal of Iranian Studies 8.3 (Summer 1990), xxx-xxxii, 411-439.

"Reflections on the Satanic Verses," Gray City Journal (March 3, 1989), 5.
Editor
Guest-editor with A. Reza Sheikholeslami, "The Emergence of Modernity and Nationalism in Iran," a special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East xviii:2 (1998/99).

Guest-editor, "Divergent Modernities: Critical Reflections on Orientalism, Islamism and Nationalism," a special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East xvi:1 (1996).

Co-editor with Abbas Amanat, a special issue on historiography, Iranian Studies 29: 1-2 (1996).

Series editor, with Afsaneh Najmabadi (Barnard College), Scripting and Visaging Women [Nigarish va Nigarish-i Zan].

V. 1: Vices of Men [Ma'ayib al-Rijal], edited by Afsaneh Najmabadi (New York: Scripting and Visaging Women Series, 1992).

V. 2: Bibi Khanum Astarabadi va Khanum Afzal Vaziri: Az Zaban-i Khanum Afzal Vaziri, Bah Qalam-i Narjis Mihrangiz Mallah, edited by Afsaneh Najmabadi (New York: Scripting and Visaging Women Series, 1996).
Edited Historical Documents
"Guzidah-'i Sharistan, Bahram Ibn Farhad" Iran Nameh 12:4 (1994), 735-740.

"Archive [A selection of Letters, Articles and Proclamations on Women published in Ayadigan Daily Newspaper, 1978-1979: Part I]," Nimeye Digar: Persian Language Feminist Journal 10 (Winter 1990), 167-197.

"Archive [A selection of Letters, Articles and Proclamations on Women published in Ayadigan Daily Newspaper, 1978-1979: Part II]," Nimeye Digar: Persian Language Feminist Journal 11 (Spring 1990), 96-157.
Encyclopedia Entries
"Persian and The French Revolution" in Encyclopaedia Iranica, edited by Ihsan Yarshater. (New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 2000), x:2, 144-146.

"Mu'ayyir al-Mamalik, Dust'ali Khan (1236/1819 or 20-1290/1873)," in Encyclopaedia Iranica, edited by Ehsan Yarshater (forthcoming).

"Mu'ayyir al-Mamalik, Dust'ali Khan (1293/1876-1345/1966)," in Encyclopaedia Iranica, edited by Ehsan Yarshater (forthcoming).
Review Essays
Mehrzad Boroujerdi, Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism. In International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 32:4 (November 2000), 565-571.

Huma Natiq and Muhammad Firuz. Mirza Aqa Khan Kirmani: Namah'ha-yi Tab'id. Bonn: Hafiz Publications, 1986. In Iran Nameh: A Persian Journal of Iranian Studies 9 (Summer 1991), 478-488.
Book Reviews
A. Reza Sheikholeslami. The Structure of Central Authority in Qajar Iran, 1871-1896. In Middle East Bulletin 33:2 (Winter 1999), 236-237.

Janet Afary. The Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism. In International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 31 (1999), 476-480.

Mangol Bayat. Iran's First Revolution: Shi'ism and the Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1909. In International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (February 1997).

Mostafa Vaziri. Iran as Imagined Nation: The Construction of National Identity. In International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 26:2 (May 1994), 316-318.

Manochehr Dorraj. From Zarathustra to Khomeini: Populism and Dissent in Iran. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1990. In International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 24:4 (November 1992), 735-736.
Commentaries
"Aqa-yi Duktur Hishmat Moayyad" [To: Dr. Heshmat Moayyad, Concerning Jalaal Matini's Review of The Vices of Men (Ma'ayib al-Rijal)] In Iran Shenasi: A Journal of Iranian Studies 5:3 (Fall 1993), 691-694.
Bibliographies
"Recent Publications in Persian," SIS News: The Newsletter of the Society for Iranian Studies 26:1 (Fall 1995), 9-13.

"Recent Publications in Persian," SIS News: The Newsletter of the Society for Iranian Studies 25:3 (Spring 1995), 6-9.
Works in Progress
Futures Past: Modernity, Memory and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century Iran (book manuscript, to be completed by 2008)

Zan dar Iran-i Naw = Women in Iran-i Naw Newspaper (in Persian expected date of publication, summer 2006).

Chistanha-yi Mashrutiyat = Constitutional Keywords (in Persian, Expected date of publication summer 2006)

Muzaffar Baqa'i va Hizb-i Zahmatkishan-i Iran = Muzaffar Baqa'I and the Toilers Party of Iran (expected date of publication: summer 2006).

The Book of Wonders: Mirza I'tisam al-Din's Journey to England, 1766-1769. Editing a Persian-English edition based on eight unpublished Persian manuscripts of Shigirf Namah-'i Vilayat (expected date of publication, fall 2007).
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