Publication

  • Books
    • Social History of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry 1908-1941 (Forthcoming).
    • Incommodious Hosts, Invidious Guests. Everyday life of Iranian Migrant Workers in the Stalinist Soviet Union (Forthcoming).
    • Dowlat va Foroudastan. Faraz va Foroud Tajaddod Ameraneh dar Torkiyeh va Iran,Gerdavarandeh va Talif (Tehran: Qoqnoos, 2011)
    • Devlet ve Maduniyet. Türkiye ve İran’da Modernleşme, Toplum ve Devlet, Derleyen (Istanbul: Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2010)
    • İran ve 1. Dünya Savaşı. Büyük Güçlerin Savaş Alanı, Derleyen (Istanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 2010)
    • Modernity and Its Agencies. The Young Moments in the History of the South, Editor (New Delhi: Manohar, 2010).
    • Ottoman and Republican Turkish Labour History, Supplement of the International Review of Social History 17 Co-Editor (With Gavin D. Brockett) (London: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
    • Historiography and Political Culture in Twentieth-Century Iran, Editor (London: I.B.Tauris, publication scheduled for 2009).
    • Iran va Jang Jahani Avval. Meydan Nabard Qodrat-hay Bozorg (Tehran: Qoqnoos, 2008).
    • Tajaddod Ameraneh, Gerdavarandeh va Talif (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, (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
    • “Constitutionalists San Frontieres: Iranian Constitutionalism and its Asian Connections”, H.E. Chehabi & Vanessa Martin (Eds.), Iran’s Constitutional Revolution (London – New York: I.B. Tauris, 2010).
    • “Historiography of Twentieth CenturyIran: Memory, Amnesia and Invention”, in: Historiography and Political Culture in Twentieth-Century Iran, Editor (London: I.B.Tauris, publication scheduled for 2009).
    • “Agency and Subjectivity in Iranian national Historiography”, in: Historiography and Political Culture in Twentieth-Century Iran, Editor (London: I.B.Tauris, publication scheduled for 2009).
    • “Iran and the Netherlands in the Interbellum”. In Martine Gosselink (Ed.), Iran and the Netherlands; Interwoven Through the Ages. (Gronsveld & Rotterdam: Barjesteh L.A. van Waalwijk van Doorn, 2009).
    • “Iranian Oil Nationalised; Mosaddeq Goes to The Hague”. In Martine Gosselink (Ed.), Iran and the Netherlands; Interwoven Through the Ages (Gosselink & Rotterdam: Barjesteh L.A. van Waalwijk van Doorn, 2009).
    • “From multilingual empire to contested modern state”, in: Homa Katouzian and Hossein Shaidi (ed), Iran in the 21st Century. Politics, Economics and Conflicts, (London and New York: Routledge, 2008).
    • “Ethnic Minorities, Regionalism and the Construction of New Histories”, in: Markus Ritter, Ralph Kauz and Brigitt Hoffman (ed), Iran und iranisch geprägte Kulturen (Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2008).
    • “Time, Labour-Dicipline and Modernization in Turkey and Iran: Some comparative Remarks”, in: The State and the Subaltern. Society and Politics in Turkey and Iran, Editor (London, I.B. Tauris, 2007).
    • “Disgruntled Guests: Iranian Subalterns on the Margin of the Tsarist Empire”, in: The State and the Subaltern. Society and Politics in Turkey and Iran, Editor (London, I.B. Tauris, 2007).
    • “The First World War, Great Power Rivalries and the Emergence of a Political Community in Iran”, in: Iran and the First World War: A Battleground of the Great Powers, Editor (London: I.B.Tauris, 2006).
    • “Going East: The Ottomans’ Secret Service Activities in Iran”, in: Iran and the First World War: A Battleground of the Great Powers, Editor (London: I.B.Tauris, 2006).
    • “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 in Iran and Iranian National Identity”. Iran Nameh (A Persian Journal of Iranian Studies), 25 (2-3), 2009.
    • “Constitutionalism in Iran and its Asian Interdependencies”, Comparative of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 28, 1, 2008.
    • “Constitutionalists Sans Frontières”, Goft-o-Gu, 51, 2008.
    • “Revisiting Social Historiography of Qajar Persia”, Qajar Studies, Volume 8, 2008. “Doğu’ya Doğru: Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa’nın İran, Kafkasya ve Orta Asya Faaliyetleri”, Kebikeç, 24, 2007.
    • “Ethnic Diversity and Territorial Integrity of Iran: Domestic Harmony and Regional Challenges”, Iranian Studies, 38, 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, 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, A special Issue on the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, Goft-o-gu, Journal on Culture and Society, 51 (2008).
    • 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).
  • Book Reviews
    • Pauline Jones Luong, Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia, Power, perception, and Pacts, In Comparative Sociology 4:1-2, (2005).
    • R. Hrair Dekmejian, Hovann Simonian, Troubled Waters. The geopolitics of the Caspian Region, In Journal of Islamic Studies, 17:1 (2005).
    • Brenda Shaffer, Borders and Brethren, Iran and the Challenge of Azerbaijan Identity, In Slavic Review, 63:1 (2004)
    • Solmaz Rustamova-Towhidi, Comintern Eastern Policy and Iran (1919-1943), In International Institute for Asian Studies Newsletter, 30 (2003).
    • Brenda Shaffer, Borders and Brethren, Iran and the Challenge of Azerbaijan Identity, In Irannameh. A Persian Journal of Iranian Studies, 15:4 (2003).
    • Alexei Vassiliev (ed), Central Asia: Political and Economic Challenges in the Post-Soviet Era, In The Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 37 (2003).
    • Nozar, Alaolmolki, Life After the Soviet Union. The newly Independent Republics of the Transcaucasus and Central Asia, In Journal of Islamic Studies, 14:2 (2003).
    • Olivier Roy, Central Asia: The Creation of Nations, In Journal of Islamic Studies, 13:2 (May 2002).
    • Jeremy Smith, The Bolsheviks and the National Question, 1917-23, In International Review of Social History, 47:1 (April 2002).
    • C. Chaqueri, The Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran, 1920-1921: Birth of the Trauma, In International Review of Social History, 44:1 (April 1999).
    • J. Foran,, A Century of Revolution, Social Movements in Iran, In International Review of Social History, 43:2 (August 1998).
    • A.A. Derakhshani, Memoirs, In Journal of Iranian Studies, 31:2 (Spring 1998).
    • T. Swietochwski, Russia and Azerbaijan, A Borderland in Transition. In International History Review, 19 (November 1997).
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