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The Islamic dynasties, a chronological and genealogical handbook, Edinburgh University Press 1967; revised ed. 1980 (Russian, Persian, Turkish, Arabic and French trs.).
Sistan under the Arabs, from the Islamic conquest to the rise of the Saffarids (30—250/651—864), IsMEO, Rome, 1968 (Persian tr.).
«The Lata’if al-ma’arif of Tha’alibi» («The Book of curious and entertaining information») translated into English, Edinburgh University Press, 1968.
(Editor) Iran and Islam, in memory of the late Vladimir Minorsky, Edinburgh University Press, 1971.
(Editor, with J. Schacht) The legacy of Islam, new edition, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1974. (Arabic tr. Kuwait, 1998).
The mediaeval Islamic underworld, the Banu Sasan in Arabic society and literature, 2 vols., Brill, Leiden, 1976.
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(Editor, with Carole Hillenbrand) Qajar Iran, political, social and cultural change 1800—1925, Edinburgh University Press, 1984.
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A century of British orientalists 1902—2001, Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2001.
Abu 'l-Fadl Bayhaqi’s Tarkh-i Mas’udi translated into English with a historical, geographical and linguistic commentary, to appear in the Persian Heritage Series, Columbia University, 3 vols., New York, 2006.
An intrepid Scot: William Lithgow of Lanark’s travels in the Ottoman Empire and Mediterranean lands 1609—211, Aldershot, 2006.