BOOKS
Modern Sufis and the State: The Politics of Islam in South Asia and Beyond. co-edited with Katherine Pratt Ewing. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2020.
Making Moderate Islam: Sufism, Service, and the "Ground Zero Mosque" Controversy. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016.
Articles & Book Chapters
“Self-Sacrificing Service and Civil Religion Now.” Beyond Bellah: Essays on Civil Religion in America. Raymond J. Haberski, Jr., Philip Goff, and Rhys Williams, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
“Freedom.” (Contribution to “Cassifying Capital: A Roundtable.”) Journal of the American Academy of Religion 87:3 (September 2019): 596-606.
“Protection.” (on Muslim bans in American history). Religion and Law in America, Joshua Dubler and Isaac Weiner, eds. New York: New York University Press, 2019.
“Dhikr.” The Practice of Islam in America: An Introduction, Edward E. Curtis IV, ed. New York: New York University Press, 2017.
"For God and Country: Religious Minorities Striving for National Belonging through Community Service." Religion and American Culture (Summer 2016).
"'Islamic Fundamentalism': The Mission Creep of an American Religious Metaphor." Journal of the American Academy of Religion 83:4 (December 2015): 977-1004.
"Meta-Data, Same-Sex Marriage, and the Making of Terrorists." (Review Essay). Culture and Religion 15:2 (June 2014): 187-197.
"Religious Pluralism, Secularism, and Interfaith Endeavors." In The Cambridge Companion to American Islam, Juliane Hammer and Omid Safi, eds. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013: 156-169.
"Between Lived and the Law: Power, Empire, and Expansion in Studies of North American Religions." Religion 42:3 (June 2012): 409-424.
"Comparative Religion and the Cold War Transformation of Indo-Persian Mysticisms into Liberal Islamic Modernity." In Secularism and Religion-Making, Markus Dressler and Arvind Mandair, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011: 141-168.
"Saving Darfur: Enacting Pluralism in Terms of Gender, Genocide, and Militarized Human Rights." In After Pluralism: Reimagining Religious Engagement, Courtney Bender and Pamela Klassen, eds. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010: 252-276.
"Translating Culture, Transcending Difference? Cosmopolitan Consciousness and Sufi Sensibilities in New York City after 2001." Journal of Islamic Law and Culture 10:3 (October 2008): 281-306.
"'As Americans Against Genocide': The Crisis in Darfur and Inter-Religious Political Activism." American Quarterly 59:3 (September 2007): 711-735, with Jodi Eichler-Levine.
"The Question of Authority: Deracinating Race, Repositioning Religion, and Regenerating Gender in the History of American Islam." (Review Essay) Comparative Islamic Studies 2:1 (2006): 97-11.
"Religion and Remedies Reunited: Rethinking Christian Science." Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 20 (Fall 2004): 25-58
*New Scholar Award
Encyclopedia Articles
"Moderation." Oxford Research Encyclopedia on Religion. Edited by John Barton. (2017)
"New York City." Oxford Islamic Studies Online. Edited by John Esposito. (2013, available here with subscription.)
"Islamic Thought." Encyclopedia of Muslim-American History, Edward E. Curtis, IV, ed. New York: Facts on File: 2010.
book Reviews
A History of Islam in America, Kambiz GhaneaBassiri. New York: Cambridge, 2010. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 79 (December 2011): 1078-1081.