Books
• Gender and Sexuality in Persian Literary and Religious Traditions: Embodied Encounters, (ed.) Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2026. • Dancing before God’s Beauty: Exploring Rūmī’s Poetic Universe, Mystical Philosophy and Reception History, (ed.) Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025. • Sufi Non-Conformism: Antinomian Trends in the Persianate Cultural Traditions, (ed.) Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2024. • Of Piety and Heresy: Abū Ḥāmid Muḥammad Ghazzālī’s Persian Treatises on Antinomians, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024 • The Art of Teaching Persian Literature: From Theory to Practice, (eds.) Franklin Lewis, Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi, Leiden / Boston: Brill, 2024. • Martyrdom, Mysticism and Dissent: The Poetry of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988), Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021 • Pearls of Meanings: Studies on Persian Art, Poetry, Sufism and History of Iranian Studies in Europe by J.T.P. de Bruijn, (ed.) Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2020. • The True Dream: Indictment of the Shiite Clerics of Isfahan, with S. McGlinn, Routledge, 2017 • Soefism: Een levende traditie, Prometheus / Bert Bakker, 2015 • Literature of the Early Twentieth Century: From the Constitutional Period to Reza Shah (ed.), I.B. Tauris 2015 • Layli and Majnun: Love, Madness and Mystic Longing in Nizami’s Epic Romance, Brill, 2003 • Mirror of Dew: The Poetry of Ālam-Tāj Zhāle Qā’em-Maqāmi, Harvard University Press, Ilex Foundation Series 14, 2015 • Metaphor and Imagery in Persian Poetry (ed.), Brill, 2012 • The Great Omar Khayyam: A Global Reception, (ed.), Leiden University Press, 2012 • Courtly Riddles: Enigmatic Embellishments in Early Persian Poetry, Leiden University Press, 2008, 2010 • The Treasury of Tabriz: the Great Il-Khanid Compendium, co-editor with S. McGlinn, Purdue University Press, 2007 • Gog and Magog: The Clans of Chaos in World Literature, with F. Doufikar-Aerts & S. McGlinn, Purdue University Press, 2007 • Conflict and Development in Iranian Film, co-editor with K. Talattof, Leiden University Press, 2013 ==References==