2023

Ridgeon, L. (2023) Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary Islamic Thought: Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009322225 (doi: 10.1017/9781009322263)

2022

Ridgeon, L. (2022) Ahmad Qābel, religious secularity and velāyat-e faqih in Iran. Religions, 13(5), 422. (doi: 10.3390/rel13050422)

Ridgeon, L. (2022) Imagining Imam Hosayn in modern Iran. Persica, 27(1), pp. 1-29. (doi: 10.2143/PERS.27.0.3290660)

Ridgeon, L. (2022) A study of a medieval Persian hagiography. Maghreb Review, 47(3), pp. 235-259.

2021

Ridgeon, L. (2021) ‘Better a live sparrow than a stuffed eagle’: nineteenth-century British Orientalism and perceptions of Persian Sufism. Journal of Persianate Studies, (Accepted for Publication)

Ridgeon, L. (2021) Hijab: Three Modern Iranian Seminarian Perspectives. Gingko: London. ISBN 9781909942561

2020

Ridgeon, L. (Ed.) (2020) Routledge Handbook on Sufism. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138040120

Ridgeon, L. (2020) The origins of Sufism. In: Ridgeon, L. (ed.) Routledge Handbook on Sufism. Routledge: London, pp. 3-16. ISBN 9781138040120 (doi: 10.4324/9781315175348-2)

Ridgeon, L. (2020) Sufi orders in the medieval period. In: Ridgeon, L. (ed.) Routledge Handbook on Sufism. Routledge: London, pp. 203-216. ISBN 9781138040120 (doi: 10.4324/9781315175348-17)

Ridgeon, L. (2020) Ahmad Qabil, a reason to believe and the New Religious Thinking in Iran. Middle Eastern Studies, 56(1), pp. 1-15. (doi: 10.1080/00263206.2019.1643330)

Ridgeon, L. (2020) The problem of Sinicizing Beijing's mosques. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 40(4), pp. 576-596. (doi: 10.1080/13602004.2020.1836595)

2019

Ridgeon, L. (2019) 'Ajam Sufis and Shi'i spirituality in 19th century Iran. In: Hermann, D. and Terrier, M. (eds.) Shi'i Islam and Sufism: Classical Views and Modern Perspectives. Series: Shi'i heritage series (7). I.B. Tauris: London, pp. 305-324. ISBN 9780755602278

2018

Ridgeon, L. (Ed.) (2018) Javanmardi: the Ethics and Practice of Persianate Perfection. Series: British Institute of Persian studies series. Gingko Library: London. ISBN 9781909942158

Ridgeon, L. V. (2018) The felon, the faithful and the fighter: the Ppotean face of the chivalric man (javanmard) in the medieval Persianate and modern Iranian worlds. In: Ridgeon, L. (ed.) Javanmardi: The Ethics and Practice of Persianate Perfection. Series: British Institute of Persian studies series. Gingko Library: London, pp. 1-27. ISBN 9781909942158

Ridgeon, L. (2018) Kasravi, Ahmad. In: Encyclopaedia of Islam Three. Brill: Leiden, pp. 149-151. ISBN 9789004356665

2017

Ridgeon, L. (2017) Awhad al-Din Kirmani and the Controversy of the Sufi Gaze. Series: Routledge Sufi series. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138057135 (doi: 10.4324/9781315165004)

Ridgeon, L. (2017) Ahmad Kasravi and "pick-axe" politics: Neckties and literature as Western tools of cultural imperialism. Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, 54(1), pp. 59-72. (doi: 10.1080/05786967.2016.11882301)

Ridgeon, L. (2017) Russian terrorism in Tehran: a Qajar Princes’ letters during the “Minor Tyranny” of 1908. Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, 55(1), pp. 44-61. (doi: 10.1080/05786967.2016.1277102)

Ridgeon, L. (2017) Short back and sides: were the Qalandars of late Safavid Iran domesticated? Journal of Sufi Studies, 6(1), pp. 82-115. (doi: 10.1163/22105956-12341296)

2016

Ridgeon, L. (2016) Reading Sufi history through ādāb: The perspectives of Sufia, Jawānmardān and Qalandars. In: Chiabotti, F., Feuillebois-Pierunek, E., Mayeur-Jaouen, C. and Patrizi, L. (eds.) Ethics and Spierituality in Islam. Series: Islamic literatures: texts and studies (1). Brill: Leiden, pp. 379-402. ISBN 9789004335097

Ridgeon, L. (2016) Ali Ibn Abi Talib in Medieval Persian Sufi-Futuwwat Treatises. In: Amir-Moezzi, M.A., De Cillis, M. and De Smet, D. (eds.) Esotérisme shi'ite, ses racines et ses prolongements. Brepolis: Belgium. ISBN 9782503568744

2015

Ridgeon, L. (Ed.) (2015) The Cambridge Companion to Sufism. Series: Cambridge companions to religion. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107679504

Ridgeon, L. (Ed.) (2015) Sufis and Salafis in the Contemporary Age. Bloomsbury Academic: London. ISBN 9781472523877

Ridgeon, L. (2015) Mysticism in Medieval Sufism. In: Ridgeon, L. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Sufism. Series: Cambridge companions to religion. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 125-150. ISBN 9781107018303

2014

Ridgeon, L. (2014) Hidden Khomeini: mysticism and poetry. In: Adib-Moghaddam, A. (ed.) A Critical Introduction to Khomeini. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 193-210. ISBN 9781107012677

2012

Ridgeon, L. (Ed.) (2012) Shi'i Islam and Identity: Religion, Politics and Change in the Global Muslim Community. I.B. Tauris & Co.: London. ISBN 9781848856493

Ridgeon, L. (2012) 'Aziz Al-Din Al-Nasafi ('Aziz Nasafi). In: Fleet, K., Krämer, G., Matringe, D., Nawas, J. and Rowson, E. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Islam (third edition). Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands.

Ridgeon, L. (2012) The Controversy of Shaykh Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī and Handsome, Moon-Faced Youths: A Case Study of Shāhid-Bāzī in Medieval Sufism. Journal of Sufi Studies, 1(1), pp. 3-30. (doi: 10.1163/221059512X617658)

Ridgeon, L. (2012) Futuwwa (in Sufism). In: Fleet, K., Krämer, G., Matringe, D., Nawas, J. and Rowson, E. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Islam (third edition). Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 143-148.

Ridgeon, L. (2012) Naqshbandi admirers of Rumi in the Late Timurid period. Mawlana Rumi Review, 3, pp. 124-168.

2011

Ridgeon, L. (Ed.) (2011) Islam and Religious Diversity. Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415590761

Ridgeon, L. (2011) Introduction. In: Ridgeon, L. (ed.) Islam and Religious Diversity. Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies, 1. Routledge: London, pp. 1-15. ISBN 9780415590761

Ridgeon, L. (2011) Jawanmardi: A Sufi Code of Honour. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780748641826

2010

Ridgeon, L. (2010) Morals and Mysticism in Persian Sufism: A History of Sufi-Futuwwat in Iran. Series: Routledge Sufi series (10). Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9780415544344

Ridgeon, L. (2010) Revolution and a high ranking Sufi: Zahir al-Dowleh's contribution to the constitutional movement. In: Chehabi, H.E. and Martin, V. (eds.) Iran's Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics, Cultural Transformations and Transnational Connections. Series: International library of Iranian studies (28). I.B. Tauris: London, UK, pp. 143-162. ISBN 9781848854154

Ridgeon, L. (2010) Shaggy or Shaved? The Symbolism of Hair among Persian Qalandar Sufis. Iran and the Caucasus, 14(2), pp. 233-263. (doi: 10.1163/157338410X12743419190142)

2008

Ridgeon, L. (Ed.) (2008) Iranian Intellectuals: 1997-2007. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415443289

Ridgeon, L. (2008) Sufism: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415419437

Ridgeon, L.V.R. (2008) Listening for an 'authentic' Iran: Mohsen Makhmalbaf's film 'The silence' (Sokut). In: Ridgeon, L.V.R. (ed.) Iranian Intellectuals: 1997-2007. Routledge: London, UK, pp. 139-153. ISBN 9780415443289

2007

Ridgeon, L. (2007) The Zurkhana between tradition and change. Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, 45, pp. 1-23.

2006

Ridgeon, L. (2006) Javanmardi: origins and development until the 13th century and its connection to Sufism. Annals of the Japan Association for Middle Eastern Studies, 21(2), pp. 49-74.

Ridgeon, L. (2006) Sufi castigator. Ahmad Kasravi and the Iranian Mystical Tradition. Routledge. ISBN 0415316359

2004

Ridgeon, L. (2004) War and peace in Islam. In: Schmidt-Leukel, P.H. (ed.) War and Peace in World Religions. Series: The Gerald Weisfeld lectures. SCM Press, pp. 148-180. ISBN 9780334029380

2003

Ridgeon, L. (2003) The Islamic apocalypse: Mohsen Makhmalbaf's moment of innocence. In: Plate, S.B. (ed.) Representing Religion in World Cinema. Series: Religion/culture/critique. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 140396050X

2002

Ridgeon, L. (2002) Persian Metaphysics and Mysticism: Selected Works of Aziz Nasafi. Curzon. ISBN 0700706666

2000

Ridgeon, L. (2000) Makhmalbaf's Broken Mirror: the Socio-Political Significane of Modern Iranian Cinema. Series: Durham Middle East papers (64). University of Durham. Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.

Articles

Ridgeon, L. (2022) Ahmad Qābel, religious secularity and velāyat-e faqih in Iran. Religions, 13(5), 422. (doi: 10.3390/rel13050422)

Ridgeon, L. (2022) Imagining Imam Hosayn in modern Iran. Persica, 27(1), pp. 1-29. (doi: 10.2143/PERS.27.0.3290660)

Ridgeon, L. (2022) A study of a medieval Persian hagiography. Maghreb Review, 47(3), pp. 235-259.

Ridgeon, L. (2021) ‘Better a live sparrow than a stuffed eagle’: nineteenth-century British Orientalism and perceptions of Persian Sufism. Journal of Persianate Studies, (Accepted for Publication)

Ridgeon, L. (2020) Ahmad Qabil, a reason to believe and the New Religious Thinking in Iran. Middle Eastern Studies, 56(1), pp. 1-15. (doi: 10.1080/00263206.2019.1643330)

Ridgeon, L. (2020) The problem of Sinicizing Beijing's mosques. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 40(4), pp. 576-596. (doi: 10.1080/13602004.2020.1836595)

Ridgeon, L. (2017) Ahmad Kasravi and "pick-axe" politics: Neckties and literature as Western tools of cultural imperialism. Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, 54(1), pp. 59-72. (doi: 10.1080/05786967.2016.11882301)

Ridgeon, L. (2017) Russian terrorism in Tehran: a Qajar Princes’ letters during the “Minor Tyranny” of 1908. Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, 55(1), pp. 44-61. (doi: 10.1080/05786967.2016.1277102)

Ridgeon, L. (2017) Short back and sides: were the Qalandars of late Safavid Iran domesticated? Journal of Sufi Studies, 6(1), pp. 82-115. (doi: 10.1163/22105956-12341296)

Ridgeon, L. (2012) The Controversy of Shaykh Awḥad al-Dīn Kirmānī and Handsome, Moon-Faced Youths: A Case Study of Shāhid-Bāzī in Medieval Sufism. Journal of Sufi Studies, 1(1), pp. 3-30. (doi: 10.1163/221059512X617658)

Ridgeon, L. (2012) Naqshbandi admirers of Rumi in the Late Timurid period. Mawlana Rumi Review, 3, pp. 124-168.

Ridgeon, L. (2010) Shaggy or Shaved? The Symbolism of Hair among Persian Qalandar Sufis. Iran and the Caucasus, 14(2), pp. 233-263. (doi: 10.1163/157338410X12743419190142)

Ridgeon, L. (2007) The Zurkhana between tradition and change. Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, 45, pp. 1-23.

Ridgeon, L. (2006) Javanmardi: origins and development until the 13th century and its connection to Sufism. Annals of the Japan Association for Middle Eastern Studies, 21(2), pp. 49-74.

Books

Ridgeon, L. (2023) Ahmad Qābel and Contemporary Islamic Thought: Rational Shariah in Twenty-First-Century Iran. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781009322225 (doi: 10.1017/9781009322263)

Ridgeon, L. (2021) Hijab: Three Modern Iranian Seminarian Perspectives. Gingko: London. ISBN 9781909942561

Ridgeon, L. (2017) Awhad al-Din Kirmani and the Controversy of the Sufi Gaze. Series: Routledge Sufi series. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138057135 (doi: 10.4324/9781315165004)

Ridgeon, L. (2011) Jawanmardi: A Sufi Code of Honour. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780748641826

Ridgeon, L. (2010) Morals and Mysticism in Persian Sufism: A History of Sufi-Futuwwat in Iran. Series: Routledge Sufi series (10). Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9780415544344

Ridgeon, L. (2008) Sufism: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415419437

Ridgeon, L. (2006) Sufi castigator. Ahmad Kasravi and the Iranian Mystical Tradition. Routledge. ISBN 0415316359

Ridgeon, L. (2002) Persian Metaphysics and Mysticism: Selected Works of Aziz Nasafi. Curzon. ISBN 0700706666

Ridgeon, L. (2000) Makhmalbaf's Broken Mirror: the Socio-Political Significane of Modern Iranian Cinema. Series: Durham Middle East papers (64). University of Durham. Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.

Book Sections

Ridgeon, L. (2020) The origins of Sufism. In: Ridgeon, L. (ed.) Routledge Handbook on Sufism. Routledge: London, pp. 3-16. ISBN 9781138040120 (doi: 10.4324/9781315175348-2)

Ridgeon, L. (2020) Sufi orders in the medieval period. In: Ridgeon, L. (ed.) Routledge Handbook on Sufism. Routledge: London, pp. 203-216. ISBN 9781138040120 (doi: 10.4324/9781315175348-17)

Ridgeon, L. (2019) 'Ajam Sufis and Shi'i spirituality in 19th century Iran. In: Hermann, D. and Terrier, M. (eds.) Shi'i Islam and Sufism: Classical Views and Modern Perspectives. Series: Shi'i heritage series (7). I.B. Tauris: London, pp. 305-324. ISBN 9780755602278

Ridgeon, L. V. (2018) The felon, the faithful and the fighter: the Ppotean face of the chivalric man (javanmard) in the medieval Persianate and modern Iranian worlds. In: Ridgeon, L. (ed.) Javanmardi: The Ethics and Practice of Persianate Perfection. Series: British Institute of Persian studies series. Gingko Library: London, pp. 1-27. ISBN 9781909942158

Ridgeon, L. (2018) Kasravi, Ahmad. In: Encyclopaedia of Islam Three. Brill: Leiden, pp. 149-151. ISBN 9789004356665

Ridgeon, L. (2016) Reading Sufi history through ādāb: The perspectives of Sufia, Jawānmardān and Qalandars. In: Chiabotti, F., Feuillebois-Pierunek, E., Mayeur-Jaouen, C. and Patrizi, L. (eds.) Ethics and Spierituality in Islam. Series: Islamic literatures: texts and studies (1). Brill: Leiden, pp. 379-402. ISBN 9789004335097

Ridgeon, L. (2016) Ali Ibn Abi Talib in Medieval Persian Sufi-Futuwwat Treatises. In: Amir-Moezzi, M.A., De Cillis, M. and De Smet, D. (eds.) Esotérisme shi'ite, ses racines et ses prolongements. Brepolis: Belgium. ISBN 9782503568744

Ridgeon, L. (2015) Mysticism in Medieval Sufism. In: Ridgeon, L. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Sufism. Series: Cambridge companions to religion. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 125-150. ISBN 9781107018303

Ridgeon, L. (2014) Hidden Khomeini: mysticism and poetry. In: Adib-Moghaddam, A. (ed.) A Critical Introduction to Khomeini. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 193-210. ISBN 9781107012677

Ridgeon, L. (2012) 'Aziz Al-Din Al-Nasafi ('Aziz Nasafi). In: Fleet, K., Krämer, G., Matringe, D., Nawas, J. and Rowson, E. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Islam (third edition). Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands.

Ridgeon, L. (2012) Futuwwa (in Sufism). In: Fleet, K., Krämer, G., Matringe, D., Nawas, J. and Rowson, E. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Islam (third edition). Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 143-148.

Ridgeon, L. (2011) Introduction. In: Ridgeon, L. (ed.) Islam and Religious Diversity. Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies, 1. Routledge: London, pp. 1-15. ISBN 9780415590761

Ridgeon, L. (2010) Revolution and a high ranking Sufi: Zahir al-Dowleh's contribution to the constitutional movement. In: Chehabi, H.E. and Martin, V. (eds.) Iran's Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics, Cultural Transformations and Transnational Connections. Series: International library of Iranian studies (28). I.B. Tauris: London, UK, pp. 143-162. ISBN 9781848854154

Ridgeon, L.V.R. (2008) Listening for an 'authentic' Iran: Mohsen Makhmalbaf's film 'The silence' (Sokut). In: Ridgeon, L.V.R. (ed.) Iranian Intellectuals: 1997-2007. Routledge: London, UK, pp. 139-153. ISBN 9780415443289

Ridgeon, L. (2004) War and peace in Islam. In: Schmidt-Leukel, P.H. (ed.) War and Peace in World Religions. Series: The Gerald Weisfeld lectures. SCM Press, pp. 148-180. ISBN 9780334029380

Ridgeon, L. (2003) The Islamic apocalypse: Mohsen Makhmalbaf's moment of innocence. In: Plate, S.B. (ed.) Representing Religion in World Cinema. Series: Religion/culture/critique. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 140396050X

Edited Books

Ridgeon, L. (Ed.) (2020) Routledge Handbook on Sufism. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781138040120

Ridgeon, L. (Ed.) (2018) Javanmardi: the Ethics and Practice of Persianate Perfection. Series: British Institute of Persian studies series. Gingko Library: London. ISBN 9781909942158

Ridgeon, L. (Ed.) (2015) The Cambridge Companion to Sufism. Series: Cambridge companions to religion. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107679504

Ridgeon, L. (Ed.) (2015) Sufis and Salafis in the Contemporary Age. Bloomsbury Academic: London. ISBN 9781472523877

Ridgeon, L. (Ed.) (2012) Shi'i Islam and Identity: Religion, Politics and Change in the Global Muslim Community. I.B. Tauris & Co.: London. ISBN 9781848856493

Ridgeon, L. (Ed.) (2011) Islam and Religious Diversity. Series: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780415590761

Ridgeon, L. (Ed.) (2008) Iranian Intellectuals: 1997-2007. Routledge: London, UK. ISBN 9780415443289