- "Abū Muslim Khorasani: His Life and Activities with an Analysis of His Socio-Political Doctrines and the Reasons for His Success" (1982)
- "The Book of Deeds of Ardashir, Son of Babak (Karnamak-I Ardashir-I Pabakan)" (1989)
- "An Early 16th-Century Ottoman Treatise on Imperial Administration: MÜNŞİ'Ü-s-SELÂTÎN by Muṣṭafā ʿĀlī" (1992)
- "Majmūʿah-ʼī Rasāʾil-ʼī Shāh Ismāʿīl-ʼī Ṣafawī (A Collection of the Epistles of Ismail I Safawi)" (1997)
- "An 18th-Century Persian Treatise on Military Science: Takmilah-‘I Ḥabīb al-Siyar fī Akhbār Āfākhān-i Khān Khānān, vol. II" (2004)
Articles & Chapters:
- "Problems Confronting Editors of Persian Historical Texts”
- "Early Shiʻi Manuscripts and Some Notes on Early Shiʻi Imamology: Studies Presented to F.C. von der Mehden" (1983)
- "A Forgotten Aspect of Shi'i Studies" (1985)
- "Religion Among the Kurdish Tribes" (1989)
- "On Shi'i Manuscripts and Shi'i Studies from Qomm in the Fourteenth Century A.D./Eighth Century A.H.", in Muqarnas X (1993)
- "Problems Confronting an Editor or Persian Historical Texts", published in Iran 36 (1998) by British Institute of Persian Studies.
- "A Tentative List of Early Shī‘ī Documents", in “Iran and The Caucasus” volume II (2003)
- "On the Origin of ‘Abbās Qoli Khan-e Laresi,” Iran. 1998 pp. 189.97
- "A Critical Review of H.-C. Delius, "Shi'a' and 'Sunna'. 50 Jahre Forschung an islamischen Grundbegriffen der Religions soziologie," published in Iranian studies, volume 39 , no. 4, Autumn, 2006
Edited Publications or Co-Editing:
- The Persian Revolution 1905-1909 (1985)
- History of the Caspian Region of Islamic Iran: In Two Volumes in Honour of Kaveh Farrokh Volume 1 & 2
- Encyclopedia Iranica. Vol. XII/3
- Iran and the Caucasus, Volume XII (2008 )
- History of the Caspian Region - Vol II : Regional Studies