Selected Publications

Books, Refereed Articles, and Book Chapters:

  • Book in Print, The Forgotten Kheir el-Din al-Tunsi’s Islamic Social Contract expected April 2026, Edinburgh University Press. (Link)
  • Article titled Human Rights in Islamic Law,, Realpolitik, and Middle East Foreign Policy in Anthologies, published by Newslines Institute for Strategy and Policy[1], 2024.
  • Book Chapter titled: “Abdessalam Yassine: The Just Ruler” in a book titled: Modern Political Thought in Morocco. (Brill, December 2024)
  • Journal book review of  Islam, Justice, and Democracy by Sabri Cifti for  The Middle East Journal, 2023.
  • Edited  the  International Journal of Islam in Asia Volumes 3 and  4, Brill, (2021-2022)
  • Co-editor in Chief of a book series titled: “Islam and Global Studies”  Palgrave:

The Role of the Mosque in Building Resilient Commuities (2022)

Reason, Revelation and Law in Islamic and Western Theory and History (2021)

Manufacturing Terrorism in Africa: The Securitization of South African Muslims (2021)

  • Co-authored paper with Erdi Ozturk, Conducting Research on Muslims in the Age of Dichotomies, Ethics, Politics and Responsiblities, International Journal of Religion, Vol.2, No. 1, 2021, pp:3-9.
  • Beyond Polite Conversation’ – Teaching Religion and International Relations:  Disciplinary, Pedagogical, and Personal Reflections”, International Studies Perspectives.  Vol. 20, Issue 4,November 2019, pp.301-343.
  • A book chapter titled: “The Geopolitics of the Wahhabi Movement: Its roots and its Contemporary Threat”, in an edited volume titled: Islam’s Contributions to IR Theory and Practice – Islamic Approaches to International Affairs, Routledge 2018.
  • Edited Islam’s Contributions to International Relations Theory and Practice Routledge, 2018.
  • A book chapter titled: “Old Wine in New Bottles: Secularism and Islamophobia in Muslim Societies, in the volume: Islamophobia in Muslim Societies, published by Palgrave 2018.
  • Book co-editor of Islam in International Affairs: Politics and Paradigms (Worlding Beyond the West), Routledge,  November 2018.
  • Book chapter titled: On Recognition: The First Steps to Democratization and the Case of the Egyptian Revolution in “Recognition as Key for Reconciliation: Israel, Palestine, and Beyond”, Brill 2017.
  • Democracy and Secularism: The Binary Divide Between Faith and Reason, book chapter in Islam and International Relations, Palgrave Macmillan March 2016.
  • Wrote the “Afterword” for “Political Islam and the Invention of Tradition, by Nicholas Roberts, New Academic Publishing, 2015.

[1] Anthologies is a niche publication for International Relations specialists that examine Islamic teachings and their effect on conducting foreign policy, it was my honor to write this article because I was joined in this edition by the well known international relations professor Joseph Nye.