Papers

“Mithra in Avesta”, Journal of Archeology and History, vol. 9, no. 1, November 1996.

“General Traits of Iranian Poetry in Middle Period”, Iran Shenakht: The Journal of Iranian Studies, The Society of Iranologists of the Commonwealth of Independent States & Caucasus, no. 9, Summer 1997.

“Mahrnamag: a Manichaean Hymn-Cycle“ in Yaad-e Bahar (Professor Mehrdad Bahar Memorial Volume), Agah Publications, Tehran, 1997.

“A Comparative Study of Amir Pazevari’s Songs and Syllabic Poems in Parthian & Middle Persian”, Iran Shenakht: Journal of Iranian Studies, no. 9, Summer 1998; repr. in Pazhoohesh Name (Quarterly Journal), Faculty of Literature & Humanities, Shahid Beheshti Unversity, no. 32, Winter 2001.

“A Survey of Parthian & Middle Persian Poetry” , The Journal of

Humanities & Social Sciences, Mazandaran University, vol. 1, no. 1-2. 2001.

“Rumi’s Prologue to the Mathnavi and Gnostic Hymns: A Comparative Analysis”, Iran Shenakht: The Journal of Iranian Studies, no. 11, Winter 1998; (English Version) in Journal of Islamic Culture, Heydarabad, India, Vol. LXXVII, No. 3, July 2003.

“A Survey of Vedic-Sanskrit Hymns and Ancient Iranian Poetry“ in Tak Draxt (Collections of Papers dedicated to Prof. M. A. Eslami Nodoushan), Tehran: Agah/Yazdan Publishers, Spring 2002.

“Cultural Reflection of Manichaeism in Iran“, Pazhoohesh Name (Quarterly Journal), Faculty of Literature & Humanities, Shahid Beheshti University, no. 33, Spring 2002.

“Gnosticism & Manichaean Gnosis“, Name-ye Mofid, Scientific Research Quarterly of Mofid University, vol. 8, no. 2, Serial no. 30, Summer 2002.

“Mythic Motifs of NouRooz“, Journal of Iranian Studies, Research Center of the Iranian Culture and Language (RCICL), Vol. 2, No. 4, Fall 2003.

“TirMah Sizze: The Myth of Tishtriya“, Iranian Journal of Anthropology, Anthropological Society of Iran, Tehran, Vo.I, No. I, Winter 2003.

“An Iranian Cultural Approach of Manichaean Gnosticism”, Journal of Dharma, Vol. 30, No. 2, April-June 2005.