Scholarly Articles

“Islam and Human Rights: A 50 Year Retrospective”
September 2022
Muslim World Journal of Human Rights

“The Secular Bias and the Study of Religious Politics: On Michael Walzer and Political Islam,” in Tamara Sonn ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2021
Overcoming Orientalism: Festschrift in Honor of John L. Esposito

“Political Islam: A 40 Retrospective”
February 19th, 2021
Religions | An Open Access Journal from MDPI

“From Sectarianization to De-Sectarianization: How to Advance Human Security in the Middle East,” in Lorenzo Kamel ed.
New York: Peter Lang, 2019
The Middle East: Thinking About and Beyond Security and Stability

“Playing with Fire: Trump, the Saudi-Iranian Rivalry, and the Geopolitics of Sectarianization in the Middle East”
Barcelona: European Institute of the Mediterranean, 2018
IEMed, Mediterranean Yearbook 2018

“Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age and the Secularization from Below in Iran,” in Mirjam Künkler, John Madeley and Shylashri Shankar eds.
Cambridge University Press, 2018
A Secular Age Beyond the West

“Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East”
Fall 2017
Review of Faith and International Affairs 15, 1-13

The Muslim Experience with Secularism: Toward A New Understanding
Singapore: Wardah Book, 2017

“Toward a Political Theory of Sectarianism in the Middle East: The Salience of Authoritarianism over Theology”
September 2016
Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies 1

“How the Legacy of Authoritarianism in the Arab World Contributed to the Rise of ISIS,”
September 2016
Turkish Review 6

“The ISIS Crisis and the ‘Broken Politics’ of the Middle East: A Framework for Understanding Radical Islamism,” in Anthony T. Chase ed.
New York: Routledge, 2016
Handbook on Human Rights and the Middle East and North Africa

“Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies: Rethinking the Relationship between Islam and
Secularism across the Islam-West Divide,” in Ahmet Cavuldak, Oliver Hidalgo, Philipp Hildmann and Holger
Zapf eds.
Wiesbaden: Springer, 2014
Demokratie und Islam. Theoretische und empirische Studien

“Rethinking Religion and Political Legitimacy across the Islam-West Divide”
April 2014
Philosophy and Social Criticism 40, 1-9

“Iran’s Changing Social Contract: Religion, Secularism and Democracy between Two Revolutions, 1979-2009,” in Mehran Kamrava ed.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2014
Beyond the Arab Spring: The Evolving Ruling Bargain in the Middle East

“The Arab Spring and Iran’s Green Movement: A Comparison” in Brian Calfano ed. Lanham, MD: Lexington/Roman and Littlefield, 2014
Assessing MENA Political Reform, Post Arab Spring: Mediators and Microfoundations

“Islam and Democracy,” in John Esposito and Emad
Shahin eds.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2013
Oxford Handbook on Islam and Politics

“Why Islam (Properly Understood) Is the Solution:
Reflections on the Role of Religion in Tunisia Democratic
Transition”
2013
American Journal of Islam and Society 30, 4

“The Arab Spring, US Foreign Policy and the Question of
Democracy in the Middle East”
Fall 2012
Denver Journal of International Law and Policy 41

“Islam and Democracy after 9/11,” in Benjamin Isakhan and Stephen Stockwell eds.
Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2012
The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy

“Religious Leaders, Sectarianism and the Sunni-Shia Divide in Islam,” in Timothy Sisk ed.
Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2011
Between Terror and Tolerance: Religious Leaders in Deeply Divided Societies