Books

• Jasmine and Stars: Reading More Than Lolita in Tehran.
  
• “Recite in the Name of the Red Rose”: Poetics of Sacred Making in Twentieth Century Iran. Forthcoming 

• Reading Mystical Lyric: The Case of Jalal aI-Din Rumi. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1998.

• A Descriptive and Analytical Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine. London: The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1986. (Winner of the Dunne & Wilson Award).

• Talashi dar aghaz (collection of poems). Shiraz: Shiraz University Press, 1976.

Articles

• "Taming of the Unruly King: Nizami's Shirin as Lover and Educator," in Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800. Ed. Guiti Nashat and Lois Beck (University of Illinois Press, 2004).

• "Flight of the Birds: the Poetic Animating the Spiritual in 'Attars Mantiq al-tayr,” in Intimations of Immortality. Ed. Leonard Lewisohn, London: SOAS, forthcoming.

• "Pregnant With God: the Poetic Art of Mothering the Sacred in Rumi's Fihi ma fih.” Journal of Comparative Study of South Asia and the Middle East, Vol. XXII, No. 1-2, 2003.

• "O, the Sky That Turns Above Our Head: A ghazal by Jalal aI-Din Rumi." Translation from Persian with a critical analysis in Views from the House of Islam. Ed. John Renard. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

• "The Call to Prayer from the Cypress Tree: Modernity and Redefining the Spiritual in Persian Poetry," Religion and Literature, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, 29.1 (1997): 17-42.

• "Much Have I Roamed through the Worlds Far Quarters: In Search of Sa`di's Self-image," International Journal of Middle East Studies 26 (1994): 465-475.

• "Convention and Innovation in the Divan-i Shams," The Turkish Studies Associ­ation Bulletin 17 (1993): 92-98.

• "Horoscope of Iskandar Sultan," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 2 (1984): 197-208.

• "Horoscope of a Persian Prince," Illustrated London News (Christmas Issue, 40),1981.

Translations

• “Shades of Bewilderment,” ten ghazals of ‘Attar translated from Persian in Intimations of Immortality. Ed. Leonard Lewisohn, London: SOAS. Forthcoming.

• "The Treatise On Journeying" by Majd ad-Din Baghdadi. Translated from Persian in Views From the House of Islam. Ed. John Renard. Berkeley: University of California Press; 1998.

• "The Seventh Qiblah: Poems in praise of Imam Riza." Translated from Persian in Views From the House of Islam.

• "Excerpts from A Sufi Lexicon" by Sayyid Sajjadi. Translated from Persian in Views From the House of Islam.

Book Reviews

• Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak, Recasting Persian Poetry: Scenarios of Poetic Modernity in Iran. International Journal of Middle East Studies. 30, no.2 (1998): 311-313.

• Amin Banani, Richard Hovannisian, and George Sabbagh eds. Poetry and Mysticism in Islam: the Heritage of Rumi. Iran Nameh. Forthcoming.

• Leonard Lewisohn ed. The Legacy of Mediaeval Persian Sufism. Iranian Studies 27 (1995): 196-197.

• Simin Daneshvar, A Persian Requiem. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 27 (1993): 97-98.

• Farzaneh Milani, Veils and the Words: The Emerging Voices of Iranian Women Writers. Iran Nameh 3 (1993): 554-558.

• Richard Ettinghausen and Ehsan Yarshater eds. Highlights of Persian Art. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (London) 1 (1986): 116-117.

• Lutz Richter-Bernburg, Persian Medical Manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles: A Descriptive Catalogue. Medical History (London) 25 (1981): 94-95.