Matthee, Rudi (1991). "The career of Mohammad Beg, grand vizier of Shah 'Abbas II (r. 1642–1666)". Iranian Studies. 24 (1–4): 17–36.
doi:
10.1080/00210869108701755.
Matthee, Rudi (1993). "Transforming dangerous nomads into useful artisans, technicians, agriculturists: education in the Reza Shah period". Iranian Studies. 26 (3–4): 313–336.
doi:
10.1080/00210869308701804.
Matthee, Rudi (1998). "Introduction to "historiography and representation in Safavid and Afsharid Iran"". Iranian Studies. 31 (2): 143–147.
doi:
10.1080/00210869808701901.
Matthee, Rudi (1998). "The Safavid, Afshar, and Zand periods". Iranian Studies. 31 (3–4): 483–493.
doi:
10.1080/00210869808701926.
(Editor, with Beth Baron) Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie, Mazda Publishers (Costa Mesa, CA), 2000.
Matthee, Rudi (2001). "Mint Consolidation and the Worsening of the Late Safavid Coinage: The Mint of Huwayza". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 44 (4): 505–539.
doi:
10.1163/15685200160052603.
(Editor, with Nikki R. Keddie) Iran and the Surrounding World: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics, University of Washington Press (Seattle, WA), 2002.
Matthee, Rudolph P. (2005). The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
ISBN978-0691118550.
Matthee, Rudi (2006). "Between Arabs, Turks and Iranians: The Town of Basra, 1600-1700". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 69 (1): 53–78.
doi:
10.1017/S0041977X06000036.
JSTOR20181989.
S2CID159935186.
Matthee, Rudi (2009). "The Safavids under Western Eyes: Seventeenth-Century European Travelers to Iran". Journal of Early Modern History. 13 (2): 137–171.
doi:
10.1163/138537809X12498721974624.
Matthee, Rudi (2009). "Was Safavid Iran an Empire?". Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient. 53 (1–2): 233–265.
doi:
10.1163/002249910X12573963244449.
Matthee, Rudi (2012). Persia in Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan. London: I.B.Tauris. pp. 1–371.
ISBN978-1-84511-745-0.
Matthee, Rudi; Floor, Willem; Clawson, Patrick (2013). The Monetary History of Iran: From the Safavids to the Qajars. London; New York: I.B.Tauris. pp. 1–320.
ISBN978-0857721723.
Matthee, Rudi (2013). "Rudeness and Revilement: Russian–Iranian Relations in the Mid-Seventeenth Century". Iranian Studies. 46 (3): 333–357.
doi:
10.1080/00210862.2012.758500.
S2CID145596080.
Matthee, Rudi (2015). "Relations between the Center and the Periphery in Safavid Iran: The Western Borderlands v. the Eastern Frontier Zone". The Historian. 77 (3): 431–463.
doi:
10.1111/hisn.12068.
S2CID143393018.
Matthee, Rudi (2016). "From Splendour and Admiration to Ruin and Condescension: Western Travellers to Iran from the Safavids to the Qajars". Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies. 54 (1): 3–22.
doi:
10.1080/05786967.2016.11882297.
S2CID192355145.
Matthee, Rudi (2019). "Safavid Iran and the "Turkish Question" or How to Avoid a War on Multiple Fronts". Iranian Studies. 52 (3–4): 513–542.
doi:
10.1080/00210862.2019.1648228.
S2CID204483128.
Matthee, Rudi (2020). ""Neither Eastern nor Western, Iranian": How the Quest for Self-Sufficiency Helped Shape Iran's Modern Nationalism". Journal of Persianate Studies. 13 (1): 59–104.
doi:
10.1163/18747167-BJA10001.
(Editor) The Safavid World , Routledge, 2021.
Awards
Matthee has been awarded numerous prizes for his oeuvre:[1]
Albert Hourani Book prize (2006). Awarded by the Middle East Association of North America
Saidi Sirjani Award (2004-2005). Awarded by the International Society for Iranian Studies
British-Kuwaiti Friendship Book Prize (2012)
Best foreign-language book on Iran (twice, awarded by the Iranian Ministry of Culture)