Michael M. J. Fischer is the author of Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003); Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues between Tradition and Postmodernity (with Mehdi Abedi, University of Wisconsin Press, 1990); Mute Dreams, Blind Owls, and Dispersed Knowledges: Persian Poesis in the Transnational Circuitry (Duke University Press, 2004); Zoroastrian Iran between Myth and Praxis (University of Chicago, 1973); and most recently, Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life; and At the Pivot of East and West: Ethnographic, Literary, and Filmic Arts (both Duke University Press, 2023).