Publications (selection)
 

• Tamimi Arab, P., and Maleki, A. Forthcoming. “Unbelief and Nonreligiosity in Iran: Survey Evidence for Nationwide Phenomena.” In The Oxford Handbook of Apostasy and Religious Deconversion, edited by Phil Zuckerman and Alexandr Zamușinski.  
• Tamimi Arab, P. Forthcoming. “Visual Triggers of Iranian Feminism.” In Visual Triggers: Image-based Battles in Today's Public Sphere, edited by Christiane Gruber and Holley Ledbetter. Leiden: Brill. 
• Tamimi Arab, P. 2026. “Woman Life Freedom in the Mirror of Scholarship: Responses from the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences.” In  Gender and Sexuality in Persian Literary and Religious Traditions: Embodied Encounters, edited by Asghar Seyed-Gohrab. Leiden: Leiden University Press, pp. 225-262.

• Tamimi Arab, P., and Maleki, A. 2025. Iran : une société sécularisée, diverse et dissidente. Paris: Fondapol.

        

• Tamimi Arab, P. 2025. Iran's Transition to Liberal Democratic Secularism: Lessons From South Africa. Freedom of Thought Journal 16: 25-44.
• Tamimi Arab, P. 2025. "Making Promises to the Shogun: Spinoza on the Dutch East India Company in Japan". In Making Promises: Oaths, Treaties, and Covenants in Multi-jurisdictional and Multi-religious Societies, edited by Pamela Klassen, Benjamin Berger, and Monique Scheer. Toronto: University of Toronto Press,  pp. 129-153.
• Tamimi Arab, P. 2025. “Beloftes aan de shogun: Spinoza's seculiere perspectief op internationale verdragen.” In Spinoza's politieke erfenis: Bijdragen aan het jubileumcongres 2022 van de Vereniging Het Spinozahuis, edited by Piet Steenbakkers and Cis van Heertum. Rijnsburg: Uitgeverij Spinozahuis, 99-112.
• Tamimi Arab, P. 2025. “Secularisme.” In Inleiding tot de islam: Een levende traditie, edited by Joas Wagemakers. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 375-386.
• Tamimi Arab, P., and Maleki, A. 2025. "The secular-religious divide in Iran: An analysis of GAMAAN’s online surveys." In Nonbelievers, Apostates, and Atheists in the Muslim World, edited by Jack D. Eller and Natalie Khazaal. London: Routledge, 112-142. 
• Tamimi Arab, P., Hughes, J.S., and Rodríguez-Plate, S. B. (eds.). 2024. The Routledge Handbook of Material Religion. London: Routledge.
• Tamimi Arab, P. 2024. “Spinoza: Arch-Father of the Material Religion Approach.” In The Routledge Handbook of Material Religion, edited by Brent S Plate, Pooyan Tamimi Arab and Jennifer Scheper Hughes. London: Routledge, 15-32.
• Tamimi Arab, P. 2024. "Pictures That Divide: The Prophet Muhammad in the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam." In Image Controversies: Contemporary Iconoclasm in Art, Media, and Cultural Heritage, edited by Birgit Mersmann, Christiane Kruse, and Arnold Bartetzky. Berlin: De Gruyter, 83-107.
• Stausberg, M., Tamimi Arab, P., and Maleki, A. 2023. Survey Zoroastrians: Online Religious Identification in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 62(4): 823-844.
• Tamimi Arab, P. 2023. “Pictures That Divide: Worldly Justice, Erotic Nationalism, and the Globalization of the Kiss.” In Provocative Images in Contemporary Islam, edited by Bart Barendregt, David Kloos, Leonie Schmidt and Mark Westmoreland. Leiden: Leiden University press, 109-139.
• Maleki, A., and Tamimi Arab, P. 2023. Iranians’ Attitudes Toward the 2022 Nationwide Protests. Published online, gamaan.org: GAMAAN.

• Tamimi Arab, P. 2022. Why Do Religious Forms Matter? Reflections on Materialism, Toleration, and Public Reason. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

         

• Tamimi Arab, P. 2022. Can Muslims Drink? Rumi Vodka, Persianate Ideals, and the Anthropology of Islam. Comparative Studies in Society and History 64(2): 1-37. Also see Is it OK to Laugh? Pooyan Tamimi Arab, Konstantinos Kalantzis, and Rihan Yeh discuss the analytical power of jokes. Comparative Studies in Society and History - In Dialogue. 28 June 2022. 
• Krop, H. and Tamimi Arab, P. (eds.). 2021. Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise (1670–2020). Commemorating A Long-Forgotten Masterpiece. Basel: MDPI (click here for open access).
• Tamimi Arab, P. 2021. Islamic heritage versus orthodoxy: figural painting, musical instruments, and wine bowls at the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures. Journal of Material Culture 26(2): 178-200.
• Maleki, A. and Tamimi Arab, P. 2020. Iranians' attitudes toward religion: A 2020 survey report. Published online, gamaan.org: GAMAAN (for the report in Persian, click here).
• Tamimi Arab, P. 2017. Amplifying Islam in the European Soundscape: Religious Pluralism and Secularism in The Netherlands. London: Bloomsbury (click here for open access).