Prof. Dr. Philip Bockholt

Books

Books (Monographs)

• Bockholt, Philip. 2022. Veröffentlichungen der Iranistik, Vol. 88, Ein Bestseller der islamischen Vormoderne. Zur Verbreitung von Ḫvāndamīrs Ḥabīb as-siyar von Anatolien bis auf den indischen Subkontinent Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. doi: 10.1553/978OEAW85178.
• Bockholt, Philip. 2021. Iran Studies, Vol. 20, Weltgeschichtsschreibung zwischen Schia und Sunna. Ḫvāndamīrs Ḥabīb as-siyar im Handschriftenzeitalter Leiden/Boston: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004442238.

Conference Proceedings

• Bockholt, Philip, Çelik, Hülya, Paul, Ludwig, and Sargsyan, Ani, eds. 2025. Transottomanica. Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken, Vol. 9, Elsine-i S̱elās̱e: A Cultural Analysis of Transmission and Translation in the Ottoman Empire. Preprint. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
• Alsancakli, Sacha, and Bockholt, Philip, eds. 2023. Cahiers de Studia Iranica, Vol. 64, Authorship and Textual Transmission in the Manuscript Age: Contextualising Ideological Variants in Persian Texts 400. edt. Paris: Association pour l’avancement des études iraniennes.

Articles

Articles in Scientific Journals, Newspapers or Magazines

Research Articles (Journals)

• Bockholt, Philip. 2024. “Translating the Controversial: Turkish Translations of Sexual Norms in the Persian Mirror for Princes Qābūsnāma.” Diyâr 5 (2): 163–184. doi: 10.5771/2625-9842-2024-2-163.
• Bockholt, Philip. 2023. “‚Weglassen, wovor man sich eher hüten sollte‘: Zu inhaltlichen Veränderungen in der offiziellen Übersetzung einer safavidischen Weltchronik ins Türkische im Istanbul der ‚Tulpenzeit‘.” Der Islam - Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kultur des Islamischen Orients 100 (1): 252–301. doi: 10.1515/islam-2023-0002.
• Bockholt, Philip. 2021. “So Close and Yet Often so Far Away: the History of India as Told by Historians in Iran around 1500.” Iran. Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies 59 (2): 187–202. doi: 10.1080/05786967.2021.1911733.
• Bockholt, Philip. 2019. “Same But Different? On Copies of the General History Ḥabīb al-siyar in Saint Petersburg Manuscript Collections.” Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies 11 (1): 52–63. doi: 10.21638/spbu13.2019.104 .

Review Article (Journal)

• Bockholt, Philip. 2017. “Scott Redford: A New Approach to the Permeability of Political Symbolism in Rum Seljuk Turkey.” Middle East – Topics & Arguments 8: 25–29. doi: 10.17192/meta.2017.8.6213.

Editorial (Journal)

• Bockholt, Philip, and Çelik, Hülya. 2024. “Multilingualism, Translation, Transfer: Persian in the Ottoman Empire: Introduction.” Diyâr 5 (2): 117–123. doi: 10.5771/2625-9842-2024-2-117.

Research Articles in Edited Proceedings (Conferences)

• Bockholt, Philip. 2026. “Footnotes in Premodern Times? On the Phenomenon of Minhiyyāt in Persian Texts.” in Marginal Matters: Explorations into Commenting and Glossing Techniques in Arabic Manuscript Cultures, Vol. 1 of Bibliotheca Arabica, edited by Stefanie Brinkmann. Leiden/Boston: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004720695.
• Bockholt, Philip. 2025. “Mirrors for Princes and Imperial Expansion: On the Production of Hümāyūnnāme Manuscript Copies in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries.” in Elsine-i S̱elās̱e: A Cultural Analysis of Transmission and Translation in the Ottoman Empire, Vol. 9 of Transottomanica. Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken, edited by Philip Bockholt, Hülya Çelik, Ludwig Paul and Ani Sargsyan. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
• Bockholt, Philip. 2024. “Shah Ṭahmāsp and the Taẕkira: A Sixteenth-Century Ruler’s Justification of his Policies.” in Rulers as Authors in the Islamic World: Knowledge, Authority and Legitimacy, Vol. 213 of Islamic History and Civilization. Studies and Texts, edited by Maribel Fierro, Sonja Brentjes and Tilman Seidensticker. Leiden/Boston: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004690615_021.
• Bockholt, Philip. 2023. “One Text in Many Versions: The Persian World History Ḥabīb al-Siyar and its Textual Transmission during the Manuscript Age.” in Authorship and Textual Transmission in the Manuscript Age: Contextualising Ideological Variants in Persian Texts, Vol. 64 of Cahiers de Studia Iranica, edited by Philip Bockholt and Sacha Alsancakli. Paris: Association pour l’avancement des études iraniennes.
• Bockholt, and Philip. 2021. “Lost Somewhere in Between? On the Transmission of History from Islamic West to East in Premodern Times: The Case of the Almohad Caliph Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb and the Battle of Alarcos.” in The Maghrib in the Mashriq: Knowledge, Travel and Identity, Vol. 40 of Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East, edited by Maribel Fierro and Mayte Penelas. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110713305-005.
• Bockholt, Philip. 2020. “Writing History is a Difficult Task: On Khvāndamīr’s General History Ḥabīb al-Siyar and the Origins of Safavid Historiographical Writing.” in Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference of Iranian Studies, Held on 14–19 September 2015 at the State Hermitage Museum and Institute of Oriental Manuscripts, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2: Studies on Iran and the Persianate World after Islam, edited by Olga M. Yastrebova. St. Petersburg: State Hermitage Museum.

Book Contributions

Review Article (Book Contribution)

• Bockholt, Philip. 2022. “Muhammad Qasim Firishta.” in Traditions of History Writing in India, Vol. 144 of BHIE, edited by Abha Singh. New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Open University.

Entries in Encyclopediae (Book Contributions)

• Bockholt, Philip. 2021. “Khvāndamīr.” in Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, edited by Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas and Devin J. Stewart. Leiden/Boston: Brill. doi: 10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_35589.
• Bockholt, Philip. 2021. “Mīrkhvānd.” in Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, edited by Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas and Devin J. Stewart. Leiden/Boston: Brill. doi: 10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_40284.

Editorials (Book Contributions)

• Bockholt, Philip, Çelik, Hülya, Paul, Ludwig, and Sargsyan, Ani. 2025. “Introduction.” in Elsine-i S̱elās̱e: A Cultural Analysis of Transmission and Translation in the Ottoman Empire, Vol. 9 of Transottomanica. Osteuropäisch-osmanisch-persische Mobilitätsdynamiken, edited by Philip Bockholt, Hülya Çelik, Ludwig Paul and Ani Sargsyan. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
• Alsancakli, Sacha, and Bockholt, Philip. 2023. “Introduction.” in Authorship and Textual Transmission in the Manuscript Age: Contextualising Ideological Variants in Persian Texts, Vol. 64 of Cahiers de Studia Iranica, edited by Sacha Alsancakli and Philip Bockholt. Paris: Association pour l’avancement des études iraniennes.

Special Issue of a Journal

• Bockholt, Philip, and Çelik, Hülya, eds. 2024.“Multilingualism, Translation, Transfer: Persian in the Ottoman Empire.” Special Issue Diyâr 2. doi: 10.5771/2625-9842-2024-2.