SELECTED ARTICLES
Islamic and Iranian Studies
Hamid Dabashi (2000) “The End of Islamic Ideology,” Social Research. Volume 67, Number 2, Summer 2000. pp. 475-518.
_____ (2000) “In the Absence of the Face,” Social Research, Volume 67, Number 1. Spring 2000. pp. 127-185.
_____ (1993) “Historical Conditions of Persian Sufism during the Seljuk Period.” In Leonard Lewisohn (ed.), Classical Persian Sufism: From Its Origins to Rumi. London and New York, Khaniqahi Nimatallahi Publishers.
_____ (1989) “By What Authority? —The Formation of Khomeini’s Revolutionary Discourse, 1964-1977.” Social Compass, vol. 36, no. 4, December 1989.
_____ (1989) “Modern Shi’i Thought”. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modem Islamic World.
_____ (1986) “Symbiosis of Religious and Political Authorities in Islam.” In Thomas Robbins and Roland Robertson (eds.), Church-State Relations: Tensions and Transitions. New Brunswick, NJ, and London, Transaction Books.
_____ (1986) “The Sufi Doctrine of ‘The Perfect Man’ and a View of the Hierarchical Structure of the Islamic Culture.” Islamic Quarterly, vol. 30, no. 2, Second Quarter, 1986.
Islamic Philosophy
_____ (1996) “The Philosopher/Vizier: Khwajah Nasir al-Din al-Tusi and His Isma’ili Connection.” In Farhad Daftari (ed.), Studies in Isma’ili History and Doctrines. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
_____ (1994) “Khwajah Nasir al-Din al-Tusi: The Philosopher/Vizier.” In Oliver Leaman (ed.), A History of Islamic Philosophy. London, Routledge.
_____ (1994) “Mir Damad and the School of Isfahan.” In Oliver Leaman (ed.), A History of Islamic Philosophy. London, Routledge.
_____ (1994) “Ayn al-Qudat: That Individual.” In Oliver Leaman (ed.), A History of Islamic Philosophy. London, Routledge.
_____ (1990) “Danish-namah-yi Aia’i.” Encyclopedia Iranica.
_____ (1990) “Mir Damad.” The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Visual, Performing Arts and Aesthetics
_____ (Forthcoming) “By the Dawn: And Ten Nights, On Shirin Neshat’s ‘Tooba.’” Paris, CNRS. In English and French.
_____ (2005) “Artists without Borders: On Contemporary Iranian Art” in Octavio Zaya (Ed), Contemporary Iranian Artists: Since the Revolution (San Sebastian, Spain: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005). In English, Spanish, and Catalan.
_____ (2005) “Shirin Neshat: Transcending the Boundaries of an Imaginative Geography” in Octavio Zaya (Ed), The Last Word. San Sebastian, Spain, Museum of Modern Art. In English and Spanish.
_____ (2005) “Women without Headaches: On Shirin Neshat’s ‘Women without Men.’” Berlin, Germany, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart. In English and German.
_____ (2005) “Ta’ziyeh: Theater of Protest,” in The Drama Review (TDR).
_____ (2002) “Bordercrossings: Shirin Neshat’s Body of Evidence,” Catalogue of Castello di Rivoli Retrospective on Shirin Neshat. Turin, Italy. January 2002.
World Cinema
_____ (2003) “It was in China, Late One Moonless Night. (Part V: Representations of Privacy in Literature and Film),” in Social Research. Fall 2003.
_____ (2002) “Dead Certainties: Makhmalbaf’s Early Cinema,” in Richard Tapper (Eds), Studies in Iranian Cinema. London, I.B. Tauris.
_____ (1999) “Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s Moment of Innocence,” in Rose Issa and Sheila Whitaker (Eds), Life and Art: The New Iranian Cinema. London, The British Film Institute, 1999. pp. 115-128.
Persian and Comparative Literature
_____ (2003) “Nima Yushij and Constitution of a National subject,” Oriente Moderno, Volume xxii (lxxxiii), 2003.
_____ (1994) “Of Poetics, Politics and Ethics: The Legacy of Parvin E’tesami.” In Heshmat Moayyad (ed.), Once a Dewdrop Accosted a Rose: Essays on the Poetry of Parvin E’tesami. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers.
_____ (1988) “Forough Farrokhzad and the Formative Forces of Iranian Culture.” In Michael C. Hillmann (ed.), Forough Farrokhzad: A Quarter Century Later. Literature East and West.
_____ (1985) “The Poetics of the Politics: Commitment in Modern Persian Literature.” Iranian Studies, Special Issue, The Sociology of the Iranian Writer, ed. by Michael C. Hillmann, vol. 18, nos. 2-4, Spring-Autumn, 1985.
_____ “Persian Literature” for The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World.
Postcolonial Theory
_____ (2001) “For the Last Time: Civilizations,” International Sociology. September 2001. Volume 16 (3): 361-368.
_____ (2001) No soy subalternista, [I am not a Subalternist] in Ileana Rodriguez (Ed), Convergencia de Tiempos: Estudios subalternos / contextos latinoamericanos estado, cultura, subalternidad. Atlanta, GA: Editions Rodopi b.v. 2001. pp. 49-59.