1979, Pasture and politics : economics, conflict, and ritual among Shahsevan nomads of northwestern IranISBN0-12-683660-4
1983 (and 2011), The Conflict of tribe and state in Iran and AfghanistanISBN0-312-16232-4
1991, editor, Islam in modern Turkey : religion, politics, and literature in a secular stateISBN1-85043-321-6
1992, editor, Some minorities in the Middle East
1994 (2nd edition 2001), editor, with Sami Zubaida, Culinary cultures of the Middle East = A taste of thyme: culinary cultures of the Middle EastISBN1-86064-603-4, ISBN1-85043-742-4
1997, Frontier nomads of Iran: a political and social history of the ShahsevanISBN0-521-58336-5
2000, editor, Ayatollah Khomeini and the modernization of Islamic thought
2002, editor, The new Iranian cinema: politics, representation and identityISBN1-86064-803-7
2002, editor, with Jon Thompson, The nomadic peoples of IranISBN1-898592-24-1
2003, editor, with Keith McLachlan, Technology, tradition and survival: aspects of material culture in the Middle East and central AsiaISBN0-7146-4927-9