Publication

• Books
• Articles
• Book Reviews

Books

• Incommodious Hosts, Invidious Guests. Everyday life of Iranian Migrant Workers in the Stalinist Soviet Union (Forthcoming).
  Modernity and Its Agencies. The Young Moments in the History of the South (Forthcoming).
• Historiography and Political Culture in Twentieth-Century Iran, Editor (London, I.B.Tauris, publication scheduled for 2008).
• Tajaddod Ameraneh [Authoritarian Modernisation], Editor (Tehran: Qoqnoos, 2007)
• The State and the Subaltern. Society and Politics in Turkey and Iran, Editor (London, I.B. Tauris, 2007).
• Iran and the First World War: A Battleground of the Great Powers, Editor (London: I.B.Tauris, 2006).
• Central Asia and the Caucasus: Transnationalism and Diaspora, co-Editor [Sanjyot Mehendale] (London: Routledge, 2005).
• Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernisation Under Atatürk and Reza Shah, co-Editor [Erik Jan Zürcher] (London: I.B Tauris, 2004).
• Beyond Essentialism. Who writes whose Past in the Middle East and central Asia? (Amsterdam: Aksant, 2003).
• Post-Soviet Central Asia, co-Editor [John O’Kane] (London: I.B.Tauris, 1998).
• Azarbayjan dar Iran-e Mo‘aser, [Azerbaijan in Contemporary Iran] (Tehran: Tus, 1997).
• Azerbaijan: Ethnicity and the Struggle for Power in Iran, [Revised Edition of Azerbaijan, Ethnicity and Autonomy in the Twentieth-Century Iran] (London: I.B.Tauris, 2000).
• Centraal Azië, co-Author [Joris Versteeg] (Amsterdam: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen-Novib-NCOS, 1994).
• Azerbaijan, Ethnicity and Autonomy in the Twentieth-Century Iran (London, IB Tauris, 1993).
• Ayat-e ‘Eshq, Tajiki Contemporary Poetry, [Selected and edited work of the Tajik poet Golrukhksar] (Frankfurt: Horizonte Verlag, 1992).
• Kurdistan in Search of Ethnic Identity, Co-Editor [Margreet Dorlijn] (Utrecht: Houtsma Foundation Publication, 1990).
• Etymologisch Woordenboek, Van Veen, P.A.F.; Van der Sijs, N., Editor (Amsterdam: Van Dale, 1989). [Part on Avestan and Persian].

Bibliographies

• The Baku Documents. Union Catalogue of Persian, Azebaijani, Ottoman Turkish, and Arabic Serials and Newspapers in the Libraries of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Co-Editor [Solmaz Rustamova-Towhidi] (London: I.B.Tauris, 1995).
• The Caucasus Directories. Union Catalogue of Persian, Azebaijani, Ottoman Turkish, and Arabic Serials and Newspapers in the Libraries of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Georgia, [co-Editors: Solmaz Rustmova-Towhidi, Grigol Beradze, Georg Sanikidze] (Tehran: Resanehha, 2006).

Book Chapters

• “Kendini Yeniden Kurmak, Ötekini Reddetmek: Panturkism ve Iran Milliyetçiligi”, in: Erik Jan Zürcher (ed), Türkiye’de Etnik Çatisma (Istanbul: Iletisim, 2005).
• “Enlightening the People: The Practice of Modernity in Central Asia and its Trans-Caspian Dependencies”, in Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek and Julia Katschnig (eds.), Central Asia on Display (Vienna: Lit Verlag, 2004).
• “Başkasını Reddederek kendini Yenilemek: Pan-Türkçülük ve Iran Milliyetçiliği”, in: Willem van Schendel & Erik Jan Zürcher(eds), Orta Asya ve İslam Dünyasında Kilimlik Politikaları (İstanbul, İletişim, 2004).
• “Incommodious Hosts, Invidious Guests. The life and Time of Iranian Revolutionaries in the Soviet Union: (1921-1939)”in Stephanie Cronin, Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran: New Perspectives on the Iranian Left (London: Routledge-Curzon, 2004).
• “Recasting and Recording Identities in the Caucasus”, in, G S. Asatrian, (ed), Iran and the Caucasus (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2003).
• “Recasting Oneself, Rejecting the Others: Pan-Turkism and Iranian Nationalism” in Erik Jan Zűrcher and W. van Schendel (eds), Identity Politics in Central Asia and Muslim Word (London: I.B.Tauris, 2001).
• “Dialogue; a Literary Form in Persian Nineteenth/Twentieth-Centuries Political Dis­course”, in B. G. Fragner, et al. (ed.), Proceedings of the Second European Conference of Iranian Studies (Rome: Instituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente, 1995).
• “A Study in the History of Bukharan Modernism, the Journey of Ahmad Donish to St. Petersburg”, in I. Baldauf, and M. Friederich (eds), Bamberger Zentralasienstudien, Islamkundliche Untersuchungen, (Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, 1994).
• “The Early Labour Movement in Khorasan”, in M. van Damme and H. Boeschoten (eds.), Utrecht Papers on Central Asia (Utrecht: Utrecht University, Turkological Series, 1987).

Articles

• “Ethnic Diversity and Territorial Integrity of Iran: Domestic Harmony and Regional Challenges”, Iranian Studies, 38:1 (March 2005).
• “On Subaltern Historiography”, Ketab-e Mah – Tarikh va Joghrafia (Book of the Month, On History an Geography) (2004).
• “Disgruntled Guests: Iranian Subaltern on the Margins of the Tsarist Empire,” International Review of Social History, 48:3 (2003).
• “Azerbaijan and Iranian Nationalism”, Goft-o-gu, Journal on Culture and Society, 33 (May 2001).
• “From Comrade Rouge to the Enemy of the People”, Goft-o-gu, Journal on Culture and Society, 31 (2001).
• “Dialogue; a Literary Form in Persian Nineteenth/Twentieth-Centuries Political Dis­course”, Goft-o-gu, Journal on Culture and Society, 23 (1999).
• “Narrating the Nation: A Study on Reshaping Identity in Azerbaijan”, Journal of Azerbaijani Studies, 2:2 (1999).
• “The Policies of the Khorasani Communists in the Early 1920s”, Goft-o-gu, journal on Culture and Society, 11 (1996).
• “The Myth of an Ultimatum, A Study on the US-Soviet Relations in the Context of the Azerbaijan Crisis”, Goft-o-gu, Journal on Culture and Society, 10 (1995).
• “Nationality, Ethnicity and Autonomy in the Contemporary Iran”, Goft-o-gu, Journal on Culture and Society, 3 (1994).
• “The Iranian Dialogue”, Iranshenasi, Journal of Iranian Studies, 4:4 (1993).
• “Prostitution in Iran”, Iranshenasi, Journal of Iranian Studies, 4:2 (1992).
• “L’Organisation Syndicale Ouvrière en Iran”, Sou’al, 8 (1987).

Editor

• Guest editor with Marcel van der Linden, A special issue on Social History of Iran, International Review of Social History, 48: 3, 2003.
• Guest editor, A special Issue on the Iranian Left Movement, Goft-o-gu, Journal on Culture and Society, 31 (2001).

Encyclopedia Entries

• “Tudeh Party of Iran”, in Encyclopedia Iranica, edited by Ehsan Yarshater (forthcoming).
• “Azerbaijan”, in Encyclopedia of Islam (supplement) (forthcoming).
• “Mirza Shafi‘ Wadih Tabrizi”, in Encyclopedia of Islam (supplement) (Leiden: Brill, 2004).
• “Mirza Shafi‘  Mazandarani”, in Encyclopedia of Islam (supplement) (Leiden: Brill, 2004).
• “Russification and Sovietization of Central Asia”, in Encyclopedia of Modern Asia, edited by David and Karen Christensen (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003).
• “Khanate of Khiva”, Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World (New York: Macmillan Reference, 2003).
• “Pan-Turanism”, Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World (New York: Macmillan Reference, 2003).