Selected publications:

• Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty (Oxford University Press, 2006, with Vali Nasr).
• Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century (University of Texas Press, 1998).
• Persian Translation of Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Ethics (Tehran, 1991, with Hamid Enayat).
• “Merchants without Frontier: Trade, Travel, and a Revolution in late Qajar Iran,” in Roxane Farmanfarmaian (ed.), War and Peace in Qajar Persia: Implications Past and Present (forthcoming, 2007).
• "Despots of the World Unite! Satire in the Iranian Constitutional Press: The Majalleh-ye Estebdad, 1907-1908" (Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 25:2, 2005).
• "Modernity and Nationalism in the Literature of the late-Qajar and early-Pahlavi Iran (1921-1941)" (Iran Nameh, 18:3, 2000).
• “Truth and Method in Modern Iranian Historiography and Social Sciences," (Critique, No. 6, 1995).
• "Critique of Ideological Literature: A Review of Intellectual and Doctrinaire Writings in Iran" (Iran Nameh, 12:2, 1994).
• Poetry and Politics of Farrokhi Yazdi" (Iranian Studies, 26:1-2, 1993).

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