All publications

Monographs

(2021) Martyrdom, Mysticism and Dissent: The Poetry of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), Berlin: De Gruyter.

(2017) Seyed-Gohrab, A.A., & S. McGlinn, The True Dream: Indictment of the Shiite Clerics of Isfahan, London: Routledge.

(2015, third print since February 2015) Soefisme: een levende traditie, Amsterdam: Prometheus / Bert Bakker.

(2014) Mirror of Dew: The Poetry of Ālam-Tāj Zhāle Qā'em-Maqāmi, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, ILEX Foundation Series.

(2009) Martelaren: van mystieke weg tot oorlogspad in the series Mededelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences), Amsterdam: KNAW Press (Aksant Academic Publishers), 72, no.4.

(2008) Courtly Riddles: Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry, Amsterdam, Rozenberg Publishers / West Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue University press. (republished in 2010 at Leiden University Press).

(2007 revised second edition 2008) The Essence of Modernity: A Study of Mirza Yusof Khan Mostashar ad-Dowla Tabrizi's Treatise on Law (Yak Kalima), together with S. Mcglinn: Amsterdam, Rozenberg Publishers / West Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue University press. (republished in 2010 at Leiden University Press under the title of One Word).

(2003) Laylī and Majn‎ūn: Love, Madness and Mystic Longing in Nezāmi’s Epic Romance, Leiden / Boston: E.J. Brill.

(2002) The Mirror of Meanings, Translated with an introduction and glossary, Costa Mesa, California: Mazda Publishers, (The parallel Persian text has been prepared by N. Pourjavady) Second edition is in preparation.

Books (Edited)

(2020) Pearls of Wisdom: Studies on Persian Art, Poetry, Sufism and History of Iranian Studies in Europe by J.T.P. de Bruijn, Leiden: Leiden UP.

(2019) The Layered Heart: Essays on Persian Poetry, A celebration in Honor of Dick Davis, Washington DC: Mage Publishers.

(2015) Literature of the Early Twentieth Century: From the Constitutional Period to Reza Shah, (A History of Persian Literature). London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2015. (Volume XI of the 20-volumes project at the Centre of Iranian Studies, Columbia University, General Editor: Ehsan Yarshater)

(2013) Conflict and Development in Iranian Film, ed. A. Seyed-Gohrab & Kamran Talattof, Leiden: Leiden University Press.

(2012) The Great Umar Khayyam: A Global Reception of the Rubáiyat, Leiden: Leiden University Press.

(2012) Liber Amicorum voor Jos Biegstraaten: Jaarboek 6, van Nederlands Omar Khayyam Genootschap, Woubrugge: Avalon Pers (together with Jos Coumans).

(2012) Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry, Leiden/Boston: Brill.

(2010) Tree voor tree naar Gods troon: essays over het leven en werk van Mowlana Jalal al-Din Rumi, Leidschendam: Quist.

(2007) Seyed-Gohrab, A.A. & S. McGlinn, The Treasury of Tabriz: the Great Il-Khanid Compendium, Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers / West Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue University press.

(2007) Seyed-Gohrab, A.A. & F. Doufikar-Aerts & S. McGlinn, Gog and Magog: The Clans of Chaos in World Literature, Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers / West Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue University press.

(2006) De Perzische muze in de polder: de receptie van Perzische poëzie in de Nederlandse literatuur, Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers. (edited together with Marco Goud)

(2003) Seyed-Gohrab, A.A., Haar, J.G.J. ter & Kon, R.E. (Eds.) ‘De band met u, mijn vriend, verbreek ik niet’: Liber Amicorum voor Kamil Banak. Leiden: Opleiding TCIMO.

Dictionary

(2007) Perzisch-Nederlands: een basiswoordenboek, Leidschendam: Quist. (with G.R. van den Berg and M. van Zutphen, amounting to more than 14.000 entries)

Entries in Encyclopaedia

Encyclopeadia of Islam (third edition), s.v. Āshiq Iṣfahānī.

Encyclopeadia of Islam (third edition), s.v. Chronogram (b) Persian.

Encyclopeadia of Islam (third edition), s.v. Bushāq al-Atʿimā.

Encyclopeadia of Islam (third edition), s.v. Epigram 2. Persian

Encyclopaedia Iranica, (Columbia University, 2006) Leyli o Majnun.

Encyclopaedia Iranica, (Columbia University, 2006) wasf (description); i. Description as a relief; ii. Wasf and riddling poems; iii. Development in descriptive style.

Encyclopaedia Iranica, (Columbia University, 2007) Jamali of Delhi, i. Life; ii. Works.

Encyclopaedia Iranica, (Columbia University, 2007) Safina-ye Tabriz.

The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion: Central and Southwest Asia, vol. 5, ed. G. Vogelsang-Eastwood, London / New York, 2010, under Dress of Shiites and Mystics, pp. 438-440.

The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion: Central and Southwest Asia, vol. 5, ed. G. Vogelsang-Eastwood, London / New York, 2010, under Muharram and Dress, pp. 444-45.

Book Chapters

(2020) “The Rhetoric of Persian Verbal Contests: Innovation and Creativity in Debates between the Persians and the Arabs,” in Disputation Literature in the Near East and Beyond, ed. Enrique Jiménez and Catherine Mittermayer, in the series “Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records,” De Gruyter, pp. 261-82.

(2020) “The Manifestation of Wonders: Sufi against Preacher in Pseudo-ʿAṭṭār’s Maẓhar al-ʿajāʾib,” in Sufis and Their Opponents in the Persianate World, ed. R. Tabandeh & L. Lewisohn, California, Irvin: Jordan Center for Persian Studies, pp. 471-94

(2020) “Sufism in Classical Persian Poetry,” in Routledge Handbook on Sufism, ed. L. Ridgeon, London: Routledge, pp. 187-200.

(2020) “Teaching Persian Literature in Persian: A Content-Based Approach,” in The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy of Persian, ed. P. Shabani-Jadidi, London: Routledge, pp. 410-30.

(2020) “‘A Noose of Light’: A Brief Biography of J.T.P. de Bruijn” in Pearls of Meanings: Studies on Persian Art, Poetry, Sufism and History of Iranian Studies in Europe by J.T.P. de Bruijn, Leiden: Leiden UP, pp. 1-8.

(2020) “‘Martyrs of Love’: Genesis, Development and Twentieth Century Political Application of a Sufi Concept,” in Martyrdom: Canonisation, Contestation and Afterlives, ed. Saloul & J.W. van Henten, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp. 129-51.

(2020) "Longing for Love: The Romance of Layla and Majnun," in A Companion to World Literature, ed. Ken Seigneurie, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell,Volume II, 601-1450, 2020, pp. 861-872.

(2020) "Edward FitzGerald’s Translations of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: The Appeal of terse Hedonism," in A Companion to World Literature, ed. Ken Seigneurie, Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell,Volume 4: 1771 to 1919, 2020, pp. 2059-2070.

(2019) “The Flourishing of Persian Quatrains,” in A History of Persian Literature: Persian Lyric Poetry in the Classical Era 800-1500: Ghazals. Panegyrics and Quatrains, Vol. II, E. Yarshater, London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 488-568.

(2019) “The Bleeding Pen: Literature and Politics in Modern Iran,” in A Fire of Lilies: Perspectives on Literature and Politics in Modern Iran, by Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2019, pp. 13-25.

(2019) “A Glimpse into the Unique Manuscript, the Safineh from Tabriz,” in Iran After the Mongols: The Idea of Iran, ed. Sussan Babaie, Vol. VIII, London / New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 75-93.

(2019) “Of Love and Loyalty: The Middle English Floris and Blauncheflour and the Persian Warqa and Golshah,” in The Layered Heart: Essays on Persian Poetry, Washington DC: Mage Publishers, pp. 99-126.

(2019) “Spun from the Heart, Woven from the Soul” in The Layered Heart: Essays on Persian Poetry, Washington DC: Mage Publishers, pp. 1-19.

(2018) “Improvisation as a Chief Pillar of the Poetic Art in Persian Literary Tradition,” in Images, Improvisations, Sound, and Silence from 1000-1800 – Degree Zero, eds. B. Hellemans and A. Jones Nelson, Amsterdam: Amsterdam university Press, pp. 131-44.

(2018) “Het kroonjuweel: een millennium aan Perzische poëzie,” in Glans en geluk: kunst uit de Wereld van de Islam, ed. M.R. Lambooy & L.M. Mols, Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers, pp. 43-9; (the English version, “The Jewel in the Crown: A Millennium of Persian Poetry”), pp. 261-63.

(2017) "Satan as the Lover of God in Islamic Mystical Writings," in The Beloved in Middle East Literature: The Culture of Love and Languishing, edited by Alireza Korangy, Hanadi Al-Samman, Michael Beard, London / New York: I.B. Tauris, pp. 85-101.

(2017) "Aardse wortels van de mystieke geliefde: Perzische poëzie uit de Middeleeuwen" in Liefdesessen: Verleidingskunst en erotiek van schepping tot verlichting, eds. P. Gerbrandy, and M. Heerink and C. de Jonge, Amsterdam/Antwerpen: Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, pp. 141-60.

(2015) "De liefde en de ziel: Rumi en zijn ontmoetingen" in Soefi-meesters van de Liefde: Rumi en Hafez: Perzische bevrijdingslyriek voor het hart (Symposion reeks), Haarlem, pp. 11-32.

(2015) "The Political And Social Background of the Literature of the Period (1900-1940)," (pp. 1-29); "Poetry as Awakening: Singing Modernity," (pp. 30-132); "Modern Persian Prose and Fiction Between 1900 and 1940," (pp. 133-160), in Literature of the Early Twentieth Century: From the Constitutional Period to Reza Shah, ed. A.A. Seyed-Gohrab, Vol. XI, London / New York: I.B. Tauris.

(2015) “Stylistic Continuities in Classical Persian Poetry: Reflections on Manuchehri from Dāmghān and Amir Mo‘ezzi” in The Age of the Seljuqs, ed. Edmund Herzig & Sarah Stewart, London / New York: I.B. Tauris.

(2013) "Politics and Persistence: The Development of Iranian Film" in Conflict and Development in Iranian Film, ed. A. Seyed-Gohrab & Kamran Talattof, Leiden: Leiden University Press, (together with Kamran Talattof), pp. 9-18.

(2013) "Marzieh Meshkini’s The Day I became a Woman" in Conflict and Development in Iranian Film, ed. A. Seyed-Gohrab & Kamran Talattof, Leiden: Leiden University Press, pp. 135-43.

(2012) "Khayyam’s Universal Appeal: Man, Wine, and the Hereafter in the Quatrains," in The Great Umar Khayyam: A Global Reception of the Rubáiyat, Leiden: Leiden University Press, pp. 11-38.

(2012) "The Companion of Your Tomorrow is Today’: Nezâmi from Ganja on Justice" in Liber plurium vocum voor Rokus de Groot, S. van Maas, C. Hulshof & P. Oldenhave, Amsterdam: UvA, 2012, pp. 251-55.

(2012) "Waxing Eloquent: the Masterful Variations on Candle Metaphors in the Poetry of Hafiz and his Predecessors," in Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry, Leiden/Boston: Brill, pp. 81-123.

(2012) "Introduction Persian Rhetorical Figures," in Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry, Leiden/Boston: Brill, pp. 1-13.

(2012) "Magie van Omar Khayyæm in hedendaags Perzië," in Liber Amicorum voor Jos Biegstraaten: Jaarboek 6, van Nederlands Omar Khayyam Genootschap, Woubrugge: Avalon Pers (together with Jos Coumans), pp. 38-48.

(2011): "A Mystical Reading of Nezami’s use of nature in the Haft Peykar" in A Key to the Treasures of Hakim: Artistic and Humanistic Aspects of Nizami Ganjavi’s Khamsa, eds. J.C. Bürgel & Ch. van Ruymbeke, Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2011, pp. 181-93.

(2010) "The Erotic Spirit: Love, Man and Satan in Hafez’s Poetry" in Hafiz and The School of Love in Classical Persian Poetry, ed. L. Lewisohn, London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 107-21.

(2010) "‘The Traveller’ and the Sun’s Companionship: Universal Mysticism in Sohrâb Sepehri" in Writings and Writing: from another world and another era, Ed. R.M. Kerr & T. Milo, Cambridge: Archetype, 2010, 393-447.

(2010) "Rumi en de school van de liefde: antinomistische motieven in Rumi’s werk" in Tree voor tree naar Gods troon: essays over het leven en werk van Mowlana Jalal al-Din Rumi, Leidschendam: Quist.

(2009) "The Lure of the East" in Iran and the Netherlands: Interwoven through the Ages, Rotterdam: Barjesteh, pp. 106-111.

(2007) "My Heart is the Ball, Your Lock the Polo-Stick: The Development of Polo Metaphors in Classical Persian Poetry" in The Necklace of the Pleiades: Studies in Persian Literature Presented to Heshmat Moayyad on his 80^th Birthday, ed. F. Lewis & S. Sharma, Amsterdam, Rozenberg Publishers / West Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue University Press, pp. 183-205.

(2007) "Casing the Treasury: the Safina-yi Tabriz and its Compiler" in Seyed-Gohrab, A.A. & S. McGlinn, The Treasury of Tabriz: the Great Il-Khanid Compendium, Amsterdam, Rozenberg Publishers / West Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue University press.

(2007) "Literary Works in Tabriz’s Treasury," in Seyed-Gohrab, A.A. & S. McGlinn, The Treasury of Tabriz: the Great Il-Khanid Compendium, Amsterdam, Rozenberg Publishers / West Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue University press.

(2007) "Unfathomable Evil: The Presentation of Gog and Magog in Persian Literature" in Gog and Magog: The Clans of Chaos in World Literature, Amsterdam, Rozenberg Publishers / West Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue University press.

(2006) "Description (Wasf) and Ekphrasis in Anvari’s Poetry" in Studies on the Poetry of Anvari, ed. Daniela Meneghini, Venice: Studi Eurasiatici, Ca’Foscari University, pp. 111-26.

(2006) "Nawoord" in Shahrnush Parsipur: Vrouwen zonder mannen, Amsterdam: Bulaaq, pp. 117-27.

(2006) "Voorwoord" in De Perzische muze in de polder: de receptie van Perzische poëzie in de Nederlandse literatuur, Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers, (together with Marco Goud), pp. 7-11.

(2006) "Kwatrijnen van Omar Khayyam in de Boot uit Tabriz" in Jaarboek van het Nederlands Omar Khayyam Genootschap, Woubrugge: Avelon Press.

(2005) "Life, Cult and Impact of Khāja ‘Abdollāh Ansāri of Herāt.” in Āshnayan-e rah-e ‘eshq: majmu`a maqalati dar mo`arrefi-ye shanzda ‘aref-e bozorg, ed. M.R. Esfandyar, Tehran: Iran University Press, pp. 135-66.

(2005) "Ayatollah Khomeini en de wijnschenker" in Een vis in een fles raki: Literatuur en Drank in verschillende Culturen, ed., R. Kruk, & S. Houppermans, Amsterdam: Rozenberg Publishers, pp. 115-130.

(2004) "The Place of Persian Ra" in Words in Their Places: a Festschrift for J. Lachlan Mackenzie, ed. H. Aertsen, et al., Amsterdam: 2004, pp. 241-56. (with M. van Staden)

(2003) "‘De provincie van de zon’: volkspoëzie uit Khurasan" in De Band met u, mijn vriend, verbreek ik niet, Leiden: TCIMO, pp. 93-110.

(2001) Omar Khayyām: Geleerde en dichter uit Perzië in de overlevering en de verbeelding, Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden, Leiden. (with J.C.M. Biegstraaten, J.T.P de Bruijn, J.M.G. Coumans).

(2000) "Majnun’s Image as a Serpent" in The Poetry of Nizami Ganjavi: Knowledge, Love, and Rhetoric, eds. J.W. Clinton & K. Talattof, pp. 83-95, Palgrave, New York.

(1996) "In the Silence You Don’t Know" in Education for Transition: Bridging Non-Western Schools and Western Higher Education, pp. 35-7, VU University Press, Amsterdam.

International (Refereed) Journals

(2021) “Poetry as Salve for Persian Exiles,” in Iran-Namag: A Quarterly of Iranian Studies, Volume 6, Number 2, pp. 14-44.

(2021) Claudia Yaghoobi and Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, “Introduction,” in Iran-Namag: A Quarterly of Iranian Studies, Volume 6, Number 2, pp. 4-12.

(2021) “Gambling in Taverns: Reflections on the Notion of Play in Persian Culture,” in The International Journal of Persian Literature, Vol. 5, Penn State University Press, Vol. 6, pp. 11-53.

(2021) “Introduction to the Special Issue: Game and Play: Literature as a Nexus among Disciplines,” in The International Journal of Persian Literature, Vol. 5, Penn State University Press, Vol. 6, pp. 4-10.

(2020) “A Persian Alexander Romance: The Cupbearer’s Functions in Niẓāmī’s Sharafnāma,” in The International Journal of Persian Literature, Vol. 5, Penn State University Press, pp. 40-62.

(2020) “Omar Khayyam’s Transgressive Ethics and Their Socio-Political Implications in Contemporary Iran,” in Iran-Namag: A Quarterly of Iranian Studies, Vol. 5, No 3, pp. 68-93.

(2018) “Rūmī’s Antinomian Poetic Philosophy,” in Mawlana Rumi Review, Issue IX, No. 1-2, E.J. Brill (published in 2020), pp. 159-99.

(2018) “Liefde tussen een moslimprins en een christelijk meisje. Een Perzische Floris ende Blancefloer?” in Journal of Dutch Linguistics and Literature / Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse Taal- en Letterkunde (TNTL), jaargang 134, pp. 42-59.

(2017) “Manūchihrī’s The Raven of Separation: Arabic Poetic Topoi and the Persian Courtly Tradition,” in Iran-Namag: A Quarterly of Iranian Studies, Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 14-36.

(2016, Guest Editor) thematic volume on Literature and Politics of The International Journal of Persian Literature (Pennsylvania State University Press), 2016.

(2016) “A Modern Persian Poet on Iran-Iraq War: Qayṣar Amīnpūr,” in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Band 166 – Heft 2, pp. 347-363.

(2016) “‘The Houses of the Tulips’: Persian Poetry on the Fallen in the Iran-Iraq War” in The International Journal of Persian Literature (Pennsylvania State University Press), issue 2016, Vol. 1, pp. 89-119.

(2015) “Corrections and Elaborations: A One-Night Stand in Narrations of Ferdowsi’s Rostam and Sohrāb,” in Iranian Studies, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 443-461.

(2013) "The Rose and the Wine: Dispute as a Literary Device in Classical Persian Literature," in Iranian Studies, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 69–85.

(2012) "Martyrdom as Piety, Mysticism and National Identity in Iran," in Der Islam: Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients, issue 1-2, 87, pp. 248-73.

(2012) "Majnun and Other Characters in Udhrite Love Poetry," in Iran-Nameh, 27: 4, pp. 192-201.

(2011) "Khomeini the Poet Mystic," in Die Welt des Islams: International Journal for the Study of Modern Islam, 51, pp. 438-458.

(2005) "The Symbolism of Veiling and the Poetics of Unveiling in Early Modern Persian Poetry," in Khil’a: Journal of Dress and Textiles in the Islamic World, No. 1, Leuven: Peeters, pp. 107-21.

(2003) "A Treasury from Tabriz: a Fourteenth-Century Manuscript Containing 209 Works in Persian and Arabic," in Persica: Annual of the Dutch-Iranian Society, No. 19, Leuven: Peeters, pp.125-64.

(2003) "Majnun-i bahana-pardaz: nigarishi bar mafhum-i bahana in Abdullah Hatifi’s Layli-u Majnun" in Nashr-i Dānish, vol. 20 No. 2, pp. 27-32, Iran University Press, Tehran.

(2001) "‘The Spinning of the Mill Lightens My Soul,’" in Persica: Annual of the Dutch-Iranian Society, No 17, Leuven: Peeters, pp. 107-26.

(2001) "The Art of Riddling in Classical Persian Poetry" in Edebiyāt: Journal of Middle Eastern and Comparative Literature, Vol. 12, pp. 15-36.

(2000) "Insects in Classical Persian Literature: the Case of the Ant" in Persica: Annual of the Dutch-Iranian Society, No. 16, Leuven: Peeters, pp. 77-112,

(2000) "Sayr-i tahavvul va kārbandī-yi chīstān dar shi’r-i Fārsī” in Nashr-i Dānish, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp.7-16, Iran University Press, Tehran.

(1999) "Magic in Classical Persian Amatory Literature" in Iranian Studies, vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 71-97.

(1997) "Neither" and "As the Story Told" in Maks: A Persian Journal of Literature. No. 6, pp. 46-7, Baran Publishers, Sweden.

(1995) “Some Elucidatory Notes on Mas`ūdī’s Sūrat al-Ghorāb” in Maks: a Persian Journal of Literature. No. 1, pp. 8-21, Baran Publishers, Sweden. (This article is reprinted in the journal Baran: Persian Quarterly on Culture, Literature, History and Politics, no. 14-5, Winter/Spring, 2007, pp. 99-105).

(1995) "Animula Vagula" in Maks: a Persian Journal of Literature. No. 2, pp. 25-31, Baran Publishers, Sweden.

National Journals

(2021) “Met modder gooien. Perzische strijdgedichten over etniciteit van de elfde tot de twintigste eeuw, ” in Madoc: Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen, Jaargang 35, nummer 2, zomer 2021, pp. 66-75.

(2019) “She’r marham-e hejran,” in Ava-ye tab’id bar gostara-ye adabiyyat va farhang (Avaye Tabid: Das Magazin für Kultur und Literatur), No. 12, pp. 47-49.

(2019) “The Tuin Qom,” in ZemZem: Tijdschrift over het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en Islam, Issue 15, No. 1, pp. 34-7.

(2018) “Bedevaart voor liefdeswensen” and “Zegening bij Soefigraf,” in the catalogue Relieken, Museum Catharijne Convent Utrecht, eds. Inge Schriemer & Loes Visch, Zwolle: WBooks, pp 126 and 131 respectively.

(2018) “‘God is schoon en houdt van schoonheid’: Gestaltes van schoonheid in de Perzische poëzie en mystiek,” in Het Schone, het Goede, het Ware, Haarlem: Rozekruis Pers, 2018, pp. 10-19.

(2018) “Leven op de grens als vluchteling,” in Speling: Tijdschrift voor bezinning, Nr. 1, pp. 31-35.

(2016) “Poëzie en politiek in Iran: Ayatollah ook dichter,” in Volzin: magazine voor religie en samenleving, No. 05, jaargang 15, pp. 44-6.

(2015) “De liefde en de ziel: Rumi en zijn ontmoetingen,” Sufi-meesters van de Liefde: Rumi and Hafez, Haarlem, Rozekruis Pers, pp. 11-32.

(2015) "Safar be-Kheyr-i Shafi’i-Kadkani dar Kuche-ha-ye shahr-e Leiden" in Bukhara, 18, no. 107, pp. 424-30.

(2013) "De martelaarsoldaten: klassieke mystieke motieven in de Iran-Irakoorlog (1980-88)" in a book compiled by Societeit De Witte.

(2011) "Middeleeuwse Perzische poëzie op het antwoordapparaat," in Madoc: Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen, 25, nr. 1, p. 21-30.

(2010) "De martelaarsoldaten: klassieke mystieke motieven in de Iran-Irakoorlog (1980-88)" in Eutopia: Internationaal venster op politiek, cultuur en kunst, nr. 25, 2010, pp. 67-73.

(2010) "Layla en Madjnun: liefde, poëzie en krankzinnigheid, de magische driehoek" in the magazine 41^e Poetry International Festival Rotterdam, pp. 22-24.

(2008) "Drinkgelagen en vagebonden in Ayatollah Khomeini’s poëzie" in ZemZem: Tijdschrift over het Midden-Oosten, Noord Afrika en islam,

(2007) "Geloof en ongeloof in de poëzie van Rumi" in Eutopia: Internationaal venster op politiek, cultuur en kunst, no. 18, pp. 45-53.

(2004) "Ayatollah Khomeini als dichter-mysticus" in Sharqiyyāt: Journal of the Dutch Association for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, No. 16/2, pp. 89-108.

(2001) "De Kaars en de Nachtvlinder: een Liefdesmetafoor in Perzische Poëzie" in Sharqiyyāt: Journal of the Dutch Association for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, No. 12, pp. 1-19.

Blogs

“A Persian Parable on Humility” (27 August 2021) at Parabelproject https://parabelproject.nl/a-persian-parable-on-humility
Gaan Religie en Liefde Samen? – Beyond Sharia (2 March 2023)
Utrecht Religie Forum | Jezus en de hond (uu.nl) (23 February 2023)
“For Woman, Life, Liberty” – Beyond Sharia (10 October 2022)
“Voor vrouw, leven, vrijheid” – Beyond Sharia (7 October 2022)
We Veil our Eyes Instead of our Women’s Faces – Beyond Sharia (25 September 2022)
“Kissed Through a Poem” at Beyond Sharia (22 February 2022 Utrecht): Beyond Sharia: The Role of Sufism in Shaping Islam | Kissed through a Poem
“Rumi en de Nacht” at Utrecht Religie Forum (5 March 2022) Utrecht Religie Forum | Rumi en de nacht (uu.nl)
“Rostam and Sohrab: ‘A Story Filling the Eyes with Tears’” (October 30^th, 2020) at Leiden Medievalists Blog https://leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/rostam-and-sohrab-a-story-filling-the-eyes-with-tears
“Limbs of One Body: How the Coronavirus Requires Sympathy Despite Social Distancing” (May 29, 2020) at Leiden Medievalists Blog https://leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/limbs-of-one-body-how-coronavirus-requires-sympathy-despite-social-distancing
“Persian roots of Puccini’s opera Turandot” (29 November 2019) at Leiden Medievalists Bloghttp://leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/persian-roots-of-puccinis-opera-turandot

“Layla, you got me on my knees, Layla…” (1 July 2019) in Leiden Medievalists Bloghttp://leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/layla-you-got-me-on-my-knees-layla

“Rumi and the Hollywood Stars: The Source of Brad Pitt’s Tattoo” (25 January 2019) at Leiden Medievalists Bloghttp://leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/rumi-and-the-hollywood-stars-the-source-of-brad-pitts-tattoo

“There was a Door to which I found no Key” (3 September 2018) at Leiden Medievalists Bloghttp://leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/there-was-a-door-to-which-i-found-no-key

“The Moving Finger: Glimpses into the Life of a Persian Quatrain” (15 April 2018) at Leiden Medievalists Bloghttp://leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/the-moving-finger

“#MeToo in Persian Poetry” (15 November 2017) at Leiden Medievalists Blog http://leidenmedievalistsblog.nl/articles/metoo-in-persian-poetry
“Valorisatie en de nutsvraag” (16 February 2010), at De Jonge Akademie weblog, https://www.dejongeakademie.nl/nl/columns/wetenschapsbeleid/valorisatie-en-de-nutsvraag

Translations: Poetry

(2012) Schaduw: Hushang Ebtehâdj, Vertaald door Hans (J.T.P.) de Bruijn & Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Leidschendam: Quist.

(2010) Iemand die op niemand lijkt: gedichten van Forugh farrokhzâd, Vertaald en ingeleid door Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Leidschendam: Quist.

(2010) Spiegel voor geluid: Mohammad-Rezâ Shafii Kadkani, Vertaald en ingeleid door Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Leidschendam: Quist.

(2007) Raana aan de vijver: gedichten van Sohrab Sepehri, Vertaald en ingeleid door A.A. Seyed-Gohrab, Leidschendam: Quist.

(2006) ‘Een schipper van was, kleiner dan God’: gedichten van Nader Naderpur, vertaald door Hans (J.T.P.) de Bruijn & Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Leidschendam: Quist.

(2006) Aïda in de spiegel en　andere gedichten: Ahmad Shamlu, vertaald door Asghar Seyed-Gohrab & Hans (J.T.P.) de Bruijn, Leidschendam: Quist.

(2006, second edition 2009) Ik voel deernis met de tuin: gedichten van Forugh Farrokhzâd, Vertaald en ingeleid door A.A. Seyed-Gohrab, Leidschendam: Quist.

(2006, second edition 2007) De klank van de voetstappen van het water: gedichten van Sohrab Sepehri, Vertaald en ingeleid door A.A. Seyed-Gohrab, Leidschendam: Quist.

(2005) "Een dichter die de lelie aasprak met ‘U’": Sohrab Sepehri (1928-1980) en de klank van de voetstappen van het water, in Differentiatie en Integratie: 25 jaar Voorbereidend jaar Anderstalige Studenten aan de VU (Ervaringen van oud-studenten), ed. VASVU, Amsterdam: Vrije universiteit, pp. 78-81.

(1999) Yadollah Royaï: Een luide stem uit de Perzische poëzie, (vertaald door Seyed-Gohrab, et al), Rotterdam.

(1998) Gedichten van Saadi, Iqbal, en Sepehri, in De Zee de Zee: Gedichten uit de hele Wereld, Verzameld door K. van Dorp, pp. 61-4, Van Gennep, Amsterdam. (with J.T.P. de Bruijn)

Translations: Novels and Short Stories

(2007) Hushang Golshiri: Het Overwinningslied van de magiërs en andere verhalen, Vertaald en van een voorwoord voorzien, Amsterdam: Bulaaq (with G.R. van den Berg, J.T.P. de Bruijn, J.G.J. ter Haar).

(2006) Shahrnush Parsipur: Vrouwen zonder mannen, Amsterdam: Bulaaq, (with G.R. van den Berg)

Book Reviews

(2023) Domenico Arturo Ingenito, Beholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry, (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, vol. 41), Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2020, in International Journal of Middle East Studies.

(2020) Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad b Īl-Tughān Bardasīrī, The Lantern of Spirits (Miṣbāḥ al-arvāḥ), ed. B. Utas, Wiesbaden, Dr Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2019, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, LXXVII, No. 1-2, pp. 177-178.

(2023) The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam: A New Translation from the Persian based on the edition of Mahmud Yerbudaki with a historical epilogue by Juan Cole: London / New York: I.B. Tauris, 2020, in Bibliotheca Orientalis.

(2023) Christopher Melchert, Before Sufism: Early Islamic Renunciant Piety, (Islam - Thought, Culture). Berlin & New York, Walter de Gruyter, 2020, in Bibliotheca Orientalis.

(2020) Golbarg Rekabtalaei, Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A Cinematic History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, in The English Historical Review, Vol. 135, Issue 576, October 2020, pp. 1371–1373, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceaa238

(2020) Wood, B. (ed.), The Adventures of Shāh Esmāʿil. A Seventeenth-Century Persian Popular Romance, (Studies on Performing Arts & Literature of the Islamicate World, 8). Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden-Boston, 2019, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, LXXVII, No. 1-2, pp. 179-180.

(2020) Mogtader, Y. & G. Schoeler, Turandot: Die persische Märchenerzählung, Edition, Űbersetzung, Kommentar, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2019, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, LXXVII, No. 1-2, pp. 177-78.

(2019) Abisaab, R.J., Converting Persia: Religion and Power in the Safavid Empire, London: I.B. Tauris, 2004, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, LXXVI, nummer 3/4, pp. 414-419.

(2019) Daftary, F. And G. Miskinzoda (Eds.) – The Study of Shiʿi Islam: History, Theology and Law. (The Institute of Ismaili Studies. Shiʿi Heritage Series, 2). I.B. Tauris, London & New York: 2014, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, Vol. LXXVI, No 1-2, pp. 213-219.

(2018) The Shi’i Imamate: A Fatimid Interpretation, an Arabic Edition and English Translation of the Tathbit al-Imama, attributed to the Fatimid Caliph-Imam al-Mansur, edited and translated by Sami Makarem. (Ismaili Texts and Translations Series, 20), London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, Vol. LXXV, No 3-4, pp. 446-48.

(2018) Daftary, F. A History of Shi’i Islam, (The Institute of Ismaili Studies. Shi’i Heritage Series, 1). London / New York: I.B. Tauris, 2013, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, Vol. LXXV, No 3-4, pp. 437-446.

(2017) Ilker Evrim Binbas, Intellectual Networks in Timurid Iran: Sharaf al-Din 'Ali Yazdi and the Islamicate Republic of Letters, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, 340 pp., in Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. LXX, No. 3, 2017, pp. 1043-1044.

(2016) Amir-Moezzi, M.A. The Spirituality of Shi‘i Islam: Beliefs and Practices, London & New York: I.B. Tauris, 2011, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, No. 5 & 6, pp. 822-24.

(2014) Katouzian, H., Sa’di: The Poet of Life, Love and Compassion, Oxford: Oneworld, Makers of the Muslim World Series, 2006, ISBN-10: 1-85168-473-5, ix + 158 pp., in Iranian Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 479-501.

(2014) Korangy, A.R., Development of the Ghazal and Khāqānī’s Contribution: A Study of the Development of Ghazal and a Literary Exegesis of a 12th c. Poetic Harbinger. With a Foreword by Wolfhart P. Heinrichs. 465 pp. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013, in Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, series 3, pp. 1-3.

(2013) Papin-Matin, F., Beyond Death: The Mystical Teachings of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt al-Hamadhānī, Islamic History and Civilization Series, vol. 75, Leiden: Brill, 2010, pp. x + 242, in Journal of American Oriental Society, pp. 63-4.

(2010) Würsch, R., Nizamis Schatkamer der Geheimnisse. Eine Untersuchung zu Makhzan ul-asrar, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2005, x + 419 pp., in Bibliotheca Orientalis, No. LXVII 1/2, pp. 226-28.

(2010) Karamustafa, A.T., Sufism. The Formative Period, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, No. LXVII 1/2 pp. 237-40.

(2010) Shaykh Mushrifuddin Sa’di of Shiraz, The Gulistan of Sa’di: Bilingual English and Persian Edition with Vocabulary, Translated by W.M. Thackston, Bethesda, Maryland: Ibex Publishers, 2008, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, No. LXVII, 1 / 2, pp. 222-26.

(2009-2010) Ruymbeke, Ch. van, Science and Poetry in Medieval Persia: The Botany of Nizami’s Khamsa, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007 in Persica, No. XXIII, pp. 139140.

(2008) Dehghani, Y., Persian-English / English-Persian Learner’s Dictionary, IBEX Publishers, Bethesda, 2006, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, No. LXV, 3/4, pp. 509-10.

(2008) Delshad, F., Persische Chrestomathie klassischer und moderner Prosawerke vom 10. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert, Mit Autobiographien, Annotationen und Glossar. Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, No. LXV, 3-4, pp. 510-11.

(2008) Mohammadi, M.H., & Z. Qayeni, Tarikh-e adabiyyat-e kudakan-e Iran, 7 vols., Chista, Tehran, 2001-2005, in Persica, 22, pp. 67-9.

(2008) Aminrazavi, M., The Wine of Wisdom: The Life, Poetry and Philosophy of Omar Khayyam, Oxford: Oneworld, 2005, 404 pp, in International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 40, pp. 163-64.

(2008) Johanson, L. and C. Bulut (Eds.), Turkic-Iranian Contact Areas. Historical and Linguistic Aspects (Tucologica 62). Verlag Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden, 2006, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, No. LXV, 1-2, pp. 232-35.

(2008) O’Kane, B., Early Persian Painting: Kalila and Dimna Manuscripts of the Late Fourteenth Century, I.B. Tauris, London / New York: 2003, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, No. LXV, 1-2, pp. 235-37.

(2007) Brunner, R., & W. Ende, ed., The Twelver Shia in Modern Times: Religious Culture & Political History, Leiden: Brill, 2001, xxii + 395 pp., in Bibliotheca Orientalis, No. LIX, 5-6, pp. 790-93.

(2006) Parsinejad, I., A History of Literary Criticism in Iran (1866-1951). Literary Criticism in the Works of Enlightened Thinkers of Iran: Akhundzade, Kermani, Malkom, Talebof, Maraghe’i, Kasravi and Hedayat. IBEX Publishers, Bethesda, 2003, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, No LXIII, 3-4, pp. 411-14.

(2005) Loloi, P., Hâfiz, Master of Persian Poetry: A critical Bibliography. English Translations since the Eighteenth Century, London / New York: I.B. Tauris, 2004, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, No. LXII, 5-6, pp. 617-619.

(2005) Hunzai, F.M., Nasir Khusraw: Knowledge and Liberation: a Treatise on Philosophical Theology (A New edition and English Translation of the Gushayish wa Rahayish), introduction and commentary by P. Morewedge, London / New York: I.B. Tauris in association with The Institute of Ismaili Studies London, 1998, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, No. LXII, 3-4, pp. 371-373.

(2005) Cannon, G., & A.S. Kaye, The Persian Contributions to the English Language: An Historical Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2001, in Bibliotheca Orientalis, No. LXII, 3-4, pp. 369-71.

(2005) Hägg, T., & B. Utas, The Virgin and her Lover: Fragments of an Ancient Greek Novel and a Persian Epic Poem, Leiden: Brill, (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, (30), 2003, xii + 278 pp., in Bibliotheca Orientalis, No. LXII, 1-2, pp. 149-53.

(2005) Hunsberger, A.C., Nasir Khusraw: the Ruby of Badakhshan, a Portrait of the Persian Poet, Traveller and Philosopher, London / New York: I.B. Tauris, Ismaili Heritage Series, 4, 2003, pp. xxi + 292, in International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 456-58.

(2004) Jahangiri, N. Gilaki Dialect of Lahijan: a Study on Phonology, Morphology & Lexicon, Studia Culturae Islamicae No. 74 (1-3), Iranian Studies No. 16, three volumes, Tokyo, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, 2003, (26 cm, vol. I, pp. ix + 188, vol. ii, 189-512, vol. iii, 513-810), in Bibliotheca Orientalis LXI, No. 5-6, pp. 638-39.

(2004) Davis, D., Panthea’s Children: Hellenistic Novels and Medieval Persian Romances, New York, Bibliotheca Persica Press (no. 3), 2002, ii+ 120 pp., in Bibliotheca Orientalis LXI, no-3-4, pp. 437-440.

(2004) Yamamoto, K., The Oral Background of Persian Epics: Storytelling and Poetry, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2003, xxiv + 191 pp., in Bibliotheca Orientalis LXI, No. 3-4, pp. 443-47.

(2004) Babayan, K., Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs: Cultural Landscape of Early Modern Iran, London / Cambridge / Massachusetts: Harvard Middle Eastern Monographs xxxv, 2002, lvi + 575 Pp. in The Middle East and South Asia Folklore Bulletin, volume 20, No. 1, Winter Issue.

(2004) Sharma, S., Persian Poetry at the Indian Frontier: Mas`ūd Sa`d Salmān of Lahore, Delhi: Permanent Black, 2000, xii + 208, in Bibliotheca Orientalis LXI, No. 3-4, pp. 440-43.

(2004) Saberi, R., A Thousand Years of Persian Rubáiyát: An Anthology of Quatrains from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century Along with the Original Persian, IBEX Publishers, Bethesda, 2000, 589 pp., in Bibliotheca Orientalis XLI, No. 1-2, pp. 237-39.

(2004) Nasser Deyhim, M., An Iranian in Nineteenth Century Europe: the Travel Diaries of Haj Sayyah (1859-1877), Bethesda, Maryland: IBEX Publishers, 1999, in Bibliotheca Orientalis LXI, No. 1-2, pp. 235-37.

(2003) Thackston, W.M., A Millennium of Classical Persian Poetry: A Guide to the Reading & Understanding of Persian Poetry from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century, Bethesda, Maryland: IBEX Publishers, 1994, second edition 2000, 186 Pp, in Bibliotheca Orientalis LX, No. 3-4, pp. 501-504.

(2003) Jaafari-Dehaghi, M., Dādestān ī Dēnīg, Part I, Transcription, Translation and Commentary. (Studia Iranica, Cahier 20). Editions Peeters, Leuven, 1998, in Bibliotheca Orientalis LX, No. 1-2, pp. 235-37 (with J. Cheung).

(2003) Pourjavady, N., ed., The Splendour of Iran (3 volumes), London: Booth-Clibborn Editions, 2001, vol. i: Ancient times 544 pp.; vol. ii, Islamic period, 528 pp.; vol. iii, Islamic period 416 pp, in Bibliotheca Orientalis LX, No. 5-6, pp. 793-98.

(2003) Jahangiri, N., A Sociolinguistic Study of Persian in Tehran. (Studia Culturae Islamicae No. 69, Iranian Studies No. 15). Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo, 2000, in Bibliotheca Orientalis LX, No. 1-2, pp. 230-35.

(2002) Dabashi, H., Truth and Narrative: The Untimely Thoughts of `Ayn al-Qudāt al-Hamadhānī, Richmond: Curzon Press, 1999, in International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 34, May, No. 2, pp. 375-76.

(2002) Ernst, C.W., Rūzbihān Baqli: Mysticism and the Rhetoric of Sainthood in Persian Sufism. Richmond: Curzon Press, 1996, in International Journal of the Middle East Studies, Vol. 34, May, No. 2, pp. 378-80.

(2001) Sharma, S., Persian Poetry at the Indian Frontier: Mas`ūd Sa`d Salmān of Lahore, Delhi: Permanent Black, 2000 in Nashr-i Dānish, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 60-2, Iran University Press, Tehran.

(2001) Bruijn, J.T.P. de, Persian Sufi Poetry: An Introduction to the Mystical Use of Classical Poems, Richmond: Curzon, 1997, in Nashr-i Dānish, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 52-4, Iran University Press, Tehran.

(1999) Afkari, A., Perzisch-Nederlands Woordenboek, Amsterdam: Vazhe, 1998, “Tajāvuz ba farhang va farhang-nivīsī” in Gardūn, Jahrgang 10, Nrs. 8 & 9, pp. 186-88.

(1998) Turner, C.P., Layla and Majnun by Nizami, London: Blake, 1997, in Journal of the Society of Iranian Studies, pp. 5-6.

(1997) Bruijn, J.T.P. de, De Rozentuin, Amsterdam: Bulaaq, 1997, Tārīkhcha-yi Gulistān dar ustān-i gul” in Gardūn, Jahrgang 8, No. 56, p. 35.

(1997) "De Deur van de ‘Sea of Stories’ is geopend" in Soera: Tijdschrift voor het Midden-Oosten, pp. 38-9.