Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“Truth and Governance: Muslim Perspectives,” in Truth and Governance: Religious and Secular Perspectives, ed. William Galston and Tom Palmer (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2021), 113-36.
“How Islamic Is ISIS?” in Overcoming Orientalism: Essays in Honor of John L. Esposito, ed. Tamara Sonn (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021), 149-69.
“The Islamic Law of War and Peace and the International Legal Order: Convergence or Dissonance?” in The Justification of War and International Order, ed. Lothar Brock and Hendrik Simon (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), 379-94. Revised version of “Jihad and the Geneva Conventions.”
“War and Peace,” in Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law, ed. Ruud Peters and Peri Bearman (Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014), 193-206.
“Enemies Near and Far: The United States and Its Muslim Allies in Radical Islamist Discourse,” in From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America, ed. John Carlson and Jonathan Ebel (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012), 250-72.
Introduction (with James Turner Johnson) and “Jihad and the Geneva Conventions: The Impact of International Law on Islamic Theory,” in Just Wars, Holy Wars, and Jihads: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Encounters and Exchanges, 3-21, 325-41.
“Zero Plus Zero Plus Zero: Pakistan, the Baghdad Pact, and the Suez Crisis,” International History Review 33, no. 3 (September 2011): 525-44.
“Islam, Constitutionalism, and the Challenge of Democracy,” in Religion, the Enlightenment, and the New Global Order, ed. John Owen and Judd Owen (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011), 221-39.
“The Problem of Poverty in Islamic Ethics,” in Poverty and Morality: Religious and Secular Perspectives, ed. William Galston and Peter Hoffenberg (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 180-203.
“War,” in Key Themes for the Study of Islam, ed. Jamal J. Elias (Oxford: Oneworld, 2010), 336-55.
“Islam, the Middle East, and the Pan-Islamic Movement,” in International Society and the Middle East: English School Theory at the Regional Level, ed. Barry Buzan and Ana Gonzalez-Pelaez (London: Palgrave, 2009), 170-200.
“Cultivating a Liberal Islamic Ethos, Building an Islamic Civil Society” and response to critics, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 27, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2007): 3-16, 29-32.
“9/11 and the Jihad Tradition,” in Terror, Culture, Politics: Rethinking 9/11, ed. Daniel J. Sherman and Terry Nardin (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006), 149-64.
Introduction (with Steven P. Lee) and “Islamic Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction: An Argument for Nonproliferation,” in Ethics and Weapons of Mass Destruction: Religious and Secular Perspectives, 1-15, 321-52.
“Political Boundaries and Moral Communities: Islamic Perspectives,” in States, Nations, and Borders: The Ethics of Making Boundaries, ed. Allen Buchanan and Margaret Moore (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 181-213.
“The Qur’an and Tolerance: An Interpretive Essay on Verse 5:48,” Journal of Human Rights 2, no. 1 (March 2003): 81-103.
“Political Perceptions in Early Anglo-Indian Relations,” Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 12, no. 2 (April 2001): 211-33.
“Saving and Taking Life in War: Three Modern Muslim Views,” Muslim World 89 (April 1999): 158-80. Expanded version in The Islamic Ethics of Life: Abortion, War, and Euthanasia, ed. Jonathan Brockopp (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2003), 129-54.
“Islamic Ethics in International Society,” in International Society: Diverse Ethical Perspectives, ed. David Mapel and Terry Nardin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), 215-36. Reprinted in Peace and Conflict Resolution in Islam: Precept and Practice, ed. Abdul Aziz Said et al. (Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2001), 95-119; and Islamic Political Ethics: Civil Society, Pluralism, and Conflict, 148-72.
Introduction and “Sovereignty, Pan-Islamism, and International Organization,” in State Sovereignty: Change and Persistence in International Relations, 1-14, 49-80.
“Self-Determination and Secession in Islamic Thought,” in The New World Order: Sovereignty, Human Rights, and the Self-Determination of Peoples, ed. Mortimer Sellers (Providence, R.I.: Berg Press, 1996), 117-52.
“Interpreting the Islamic Ethics of War and Peace,” in The Ethics of War and Peace: Religious and Secular Perspectives, ed. Terry Nardin (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), 146-66. Reprinted in Islamic Political Ethics: Civil Society, Pluralism, and Conflict, 198-216.
“But Was It Jihad? Islam and the Ethics of the Persian Gulf War,” in The Eagle in the Desert: Looking Back on U.S. Involvement in the Persian Gulf War, ed. William Head and Earl Tilford (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1996), 47-64.
“International Society and Its Islamic Malcontents,” Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 20 (Winter/Spring 1996): 13-29.
“Is There an Islamic Ethic of Humanitarian Intervention?” Ethics & International Affairs 7 (1993): 55-73. Revised version in Just Intervention, ed. Anthony F. Lang, Jr. (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2003), 62-83.
Encyclopedia and Other Short Articles
“War Ethics,” Encyclopedia of Islamic Bioethics, ed. Ayman Shabana (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017).
“Abodes (of Islam, War, and Treaty),” “Constitutionalism,” and “Reform: Arab Middle East and North Africa,” in Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2nd ed., ed. Richard C. Martin (New York: Gale, 2016).
“Islam and Constitutionalism,” Law & Liberty, Feb. 1, 2013, at https://www.lawliberty.org/liberty-forum/islam-and-constitutionalism/.
“A Taboo Worth Protecting” (with Jon Western), Foreign Affairs “Snapshot,” Sept. 9, 2013, at https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/syria/2013-09-09/taboo-worth-protecting.
“Abodes, of Islam, War, and Truce,” “Diplomacy,” and “Rebellion” in Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, ed. Gerhard Bowering (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012).
“Ta‘rib: Arabicisation as a Weapon of Modern Political Policy,” in Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed. (Leiden: Brill, 2004).
“Islam–Sunni,” in Encyclopedia of Religion and War, ed. Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez (New York: Routledge, 2003).
“Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab,” “Muhammad ‘Abduh,” “Jamal al-Din al-Afghani,” “Hasan al-Banna,” “Constitutionalism,” “Dawla,” “Fundamentalism,” “Taha Husayn,” “Jihad,” “‘Abd al-Rahman Kawakibi,” “Pan-Arabism,” “Pan-Islamism,” “Sayyid Qutb,” “Reform in the Arab Middle East and North Africa,” “Rashid Rida,” “Mahmud Shaltut,” and “Wahhabiyya” in Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, ed. Richard C. Martin (New York: Gale, 2003).
“Islam and Tolerance: A Conservative Legacy,” Boston Review 27:1 (February-March 2002): 49-50. Reprinted in The Place of Tolerance in Islam, ed. Joshua Cohen and Ian Lague (Boston: Beacon Press, 2002), 31-36.
“Jihad,” in The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, ed. Robert Wuthnow (Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly, 1998). Revised version in The Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion, 2nd ed. (2007).
“Toward an Islamic Ethics of International Relations: A Research Agenda,” American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 10 (Spring 1993): 88-95.