Dr. Arash Ghajarjazi

Researcher
Religious Studies
Islam and Arabic
a.ghajarjazi@uu.nl

Publications

2025

Scholarly publications

Ghajarjazi, A. (2025). The digital Double Bind: Change and stasis in the Middle East MOHAMED ZAYANI and JOE F. KHALIL, 2024 Oxford, oxford university press. pp. 316, index, £18.99 (paper). Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 45(2), 459-461. [DOI] [Portal]
Ghajarjazi, A. (2025). Wire Exorcism: Radio Berlin Persian Service and the Making of Wireless Modernity in Iran. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. Advance online publication. [DOI]
Ghajarjazi, A. (2025). Remembering ʿUmar Khayyām: Episodes of Unbelief in the Reception Histories of Persian Quatrains. De Gruyter. [DOI]
Ghajarjazi, A. (Accepted/In press). Towards an Archaeology of the Televisual Image in Iran. In E. Huhtamo, & D. Galili (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Media Archaeology Routledge.

2024

Scholarly publications

Ghajarjazi, A. (2024). Memories of Immolation: The Image of Fire in Rūmī's Story of Ukhdūd. Manuscript in preparation. In Rumi’s Life, Philosophy and Reception De Gruyter.
Ghajarjazi, A. (2024). A Polemic on Knowledge: An Analysis of Two Persian Quatrains. In A. Seyed-Gohrab (Ed.), Sufi Non-Conformism : Antinomian Trends in the Persianate Cultural Traditions (pp. 179-201). Leiden University Press.
Ghajarjazi, A. (2024). Becoming Landscape: Towards a Theory of Image in Jāmī’s Salāmān u Absāl. Persica - International Journal of Persian and Iranian Studies, (xxviii), 1-17.
Ghajarjazi, A. (2024). Rememebring Khayyām: Episodes of Unbelief in the Reception Histories of Persian Quatrains. . De Gruyter.

2023

Popularising publications

Ghajarjazi, A. (2023). Rumi's sprekende beelden: Het verhaal van het kind in het vuur. ZemZem: Tijdschrift over het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en islam, 19(2), 91-98. [Repository]

2022

Scholarly publications

Ghajarjazi, A. (2022). Fascistophilic Epidemics: Transpositions On Shiite Medico-Religious Imagination. In R. Dolphijn, & R. Braidotti (Eds.), Deleuze and Guattari and Fascism (pp. 267-284). Edinburgh University Press.
Ghajarjazi, A. (2022). Irrationalities in Islam and Media in Nineteenth-Century Iran: Faces of Modernity. Leiden University Press.
Ghajarjazi, A. (2022). The senses of cholera: transformations of gustation and olfaction in 19th-century Iran. Senses and Society, 17(1), 109-126. [DOI] [Repository]

2021

Scholarly publications

Ghajarjazi, A. (2021). Techniques of the senses: 19th-century media and Shiism in Iran. [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Universiteit Utrecht]. Utrecht University. [DOI] [Portal]

2020

Scholarly publications

Ghajarjazi, A. (2020). The Iranian Metaphysicals: Explorations in Science, Islam, and the Uncanny, Alireza Doostdar, Islamic Studies and the Anthropology of Religion, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018, ISBN 9780691163789 (pbk), 295 pp. Iranian Studies, 53(1-2), 176-181. [DOI] [Repository]