Asghar Seyed-Gohrab

Ali-Asghar Seyed-Ghorab (born 1968) is an Iranian literary scholar and Professor of Persian and Iranian Studies at Utrecht University. Previously, he was Associate Professor of Persian Language and Literature in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at Leiden University. He is a fellow of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2023 he was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Books

 * Martyrdom, Mysticism and Dissent: The Poetry of the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Iran–Iraq War (1980–1988), de Gruyter, 2021
 * 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