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Authored Books

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2023) Dizful Bridge Company: the modern historiography of the Sassanid bridge = Shirkat-i Pul-i Dizfūl : tārīkhʹnigārī-i jadīd-i pul-i Sāsānī. Tehran: Anthropology Publisher.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2018) The Rite of Urban Passage: The Spatial Ritualization of Iranian Urban Transformation. New York: Berghahn. (Articulating Journeys: Festivals, Memorials, and Homecomings)

Book Chapters

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2021) 'Urban Anthropological Experiences in Iran and India.' In: Rahmani, Jabar, (ed.), Iranian Ethnography: one context, multiple imaginings. Tehran: Institute for Social and Cultural Studies Press, pp. 89-136.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2020) 'Brexit and Post-Globalisation Era: Walking into Unknown Geograph.' In: Andrew, Hazel, (ed.), Tourism and Brexit: Travel, Borders and Identity. Bristol: Channel View Publications, pp. 188-202. (Tourism and cultural change, 56)

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2019) 'Pilgrimage to a Ritual: The Fluid Sacred Geography of the Bohras’ Muharram.' In: Rahimi, Babak and Eshaghi, Peyman, (eds.), Muslim Pilgrimage in the Modern World. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, pp. 240-257. (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks)

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2017) 'The Ritual and Built Initiatives of the Iranians in Bombay.' In: Vom Bruck, Gabriele and Tripp, Charles, (eds.), Precarious Belonging: Being Shi’i in Non-Shi’i Worlds. London: CASS, pp. 61-126.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2015) 'Trans-spatial Public Action: The Geography of Iranian Post-Election Protests in the Age of Web 2.0.' In: Rahimi, Babak and Faris, David, (eds.), Social Media in Iran: Politics and Society After 2009. Albany: State University of New York Press (SUNY Press), pp. 165-181.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2015) 'The Muharram Procession of Mumbai: From Seafront to Cemetery.' In: Van der Veer, Peter, (ed.), Handbook of Religion and the Asian City: Aspiration and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century. Oakland, Ca: University of California Press, pp. 89-109.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2015) 'Urban Violence, the Muharram Processions, and the Transformation of Iranian Urban Society: The Case of Dezfoul.' In: Freitag, Ulrike, Fuccaro, Nelida, Ghrawi, Claudia and Lafi, Nora, (eds.), Urban Violence in the Middle East: Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 91-110.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2014) 'Religious Procession as a Mediator for Social Intimacy: Building Communal Harmony in Dharavi after the 1992 Mumbai Riot.' In: Mathey, Kosta and Matuk, Silvia, (eds.), Community-Based Urban Violence Prevention: Innovative Approaches in Africa, Latin America, Asia and the Arab Region. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, pp. 265-278.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2009) 'Oral History and Urban Studies.' In: Oral History of Iran. Tehran: National Library and Archives of I.R. Iran, pp. 141-159.

Journal Article

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2023) 'The Urban Ritual: Ritual and Counter-Ritual during Muḥarram in Mumbai.' Asian Ethnology. (Forthcoming)

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2017) 'Performed Ritual Space: Manifestation of Ritual Space through Flagellation in Mumbai Muharram.' Journal of Ritual Studies, 31 (2). pp. 1-15.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2017) 'A Comparative Study of Social and Retail Bazaars: Investigating the Historical Bazaar of Dezful and Shushtar as Retail Bazaar.' Journal of Iranian Architecture Studies, 5 (10). pp. 73-100.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2016) 'Crowds, Protests, and Processions: Revisiting Urban Experiences.' Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 17 (3). pp. 251-253.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2016) 'From Built to Performed Space: Post-Election Protests in Tehran.' Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory, 17 (3). pp. 316-336.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2015) 'Urban Margins, a Refuge for Muharram Processions in Bombay: Towards an Idea of Cultural Resilience.' The South Asia Chronicle, 5 (1). pp. 325-346.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2013) 'The Discursive Manifestation of Past and Present through the Spatial Organization of the Ashura Procession.' Space and Culture, 16 (2). pp. 133-160.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2013) 'The Spatial Logic of Crowd: The Effectiveness of Protest in Public Space.' International Journal of Islamic Architecture, 2 (1). pp. 157-178.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2012) 'Practising Fractal Shi’i Identities through Muharram Rituals in Mumbai.' Diversities, International journal on multicultural societies, 14 (2). pp. 83-92.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2009) 'The Ritual as an Urban Phenomenon: The dynamism of Ashura Ritual in Iranian Cities during the Modern Transformation.' Paul Firoozeh Quarterly, 6 (18). pp. 83-92.

Translations

Masoudi Nejad, Reza, trans. (2022) Light Me a Candle: Two years of literacy and adult education work among the women of Khuzistan, Iran. By Rita Wiesinger. Tehran: Andisheh-i Ehsan.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza, trans. (2004) Reasoning Art; or the Need for an Analytic Theory of Architecture’. In Epistemological Foundation in Teaching Architecture; Architecture Et Enseignement: Fondements Epistemologiques. By Bill Hillier. Abadi, Quarterly Journal of Architecture and Urbanism, 14 (43-44). Tehran: pp. 134-139.

Other

Masoudi Nejad, Reza (2021) 'Ashura.' Oxford Bibliographies in Islamic Studies . Oxford University Press.

Masoudi Nejad, Reza and Jahanbakhsh, Forough (2014) 'Iran.' Worldmark Encyclopaedia of Religious Practices, 2nd Edition, 4 . Boston, MA: Gale. pp. 121-131.