“Toward an Ethnography of God.” American Anthropologist 127(3) 2025: 541-551.

 “Religious Afterlives of a Revolution.” Cultural Anthropology 40(1) 2025: 27-54.

“God, Islam, and Anthropology.” In Conceptualizing Islam: Current Approaches. Edited by Paula Schrode, Frank Peter, and Ricarda Stegman. Routledge. 2025. Pp. 233-246.

“Caring for Cats in Cairo: Urban Grammars of Compassion.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2025: 1-9.

“The Uneven Landscapes of Censorship.” Public Anthropologist 7(2) 2025: 202-226.

 “Reckoning with God: Divine-Human Relations after the Arab Spring.” Co-authored with Joud Alkorani. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 2025: 83-90.

“The Gift of Food: An Islamic Ethics of Care.” In Care in a Time of Humanitarianism: Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South. Edited by Arzoo Osanloo and Cabeiri Robinson. Berghahn. 2024. Pp. 254-267.

“Beyond the Human Horizon.” Religion and Society 12(1) 2021: 21-38.

“God in Times of Uncertainty.” Co-authored with Khadija Mohamed Embaby. Dossier Corona – Religious Matters. 2021.  

“Godly Dreams: Muslim Encounters with the Divine.” In New Directions in the Anthropology of Dreaming. Edited by Robin Sheriff and Jeannette Mageo. Routledge. 2020. Pp. 183-203.

“The Elsewhere Beyond Religious Concerns.” Co-authored with Annalisa Buttici. Religion and Society 11(1) 2020: 176-185.

“Islamic Charity as (Non)Political.” Islamic Law and Society 27(1-2) 2020: 111-131.

“The unknown in the Egyptian uprising: towards an anthropology of al-Ghayb.” Contemporary Islam 2017: 1-15.

“Muslim Prayer on Picture Postcards of French Algeria, 1900–1960.” Co-authored with William A. Christian Jr.  Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief 13(1) 2017: 23-51.

“How to Do Things with Examples: Of Sufis, Dreams, and Anthropology.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 21, 2015: 129-143. 

“Dreams and the Miraculous.” In Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East. Edited by Soraya Altorki. Wiley-Blackwell. 2015. Pp. 107-124.

“Trading with God: Islam, Calculation, Excess.” In Companion to the Anthropology of Religion. Edited by Michael Lambek and Janice Boddy. Wiley-Blackwell. 2014. 274-294.

“Beyond Compassion: Islamic Voluntarism in Egypt.” American Ethnologist 41 (3) 2014: 518-531.

“Death and Martyrdom in the Arab Uprisings: An Introduction.” Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology  80(5) 2014: 583-604.

“Bread, Freedom, Social Justice: The Egyptian Uprising and a Sufi Khidma.” Cultural Anthropology 29(1) 2014: 54-79.

“The Politics of Divine Intervention.” Immanent Frame. 25 June 2014.

“Dreams from Elsewhere: Muslim Subjectivities beyond the Trope of Self-Cultivation.” Journal of Royal Anthropological Institute 18(2) 2012: 247-265.

“Invisible Armies: Reflections on Egyptian Dreams of War.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 52(2) 2012: 392-417. 

“A Matter of Interpretation: Dreams, Islam, and Psychology in Contemporary Egypt.” In After Pluralism: Reimagining Religious Engagement. Edited by Courtney Bender and Pamela Klassen. Columbia University Press. 2010. 178-200.

“(Re)Imagining Space: Dreams and Saint Shrines in Egypt.” In Dimensions of Locality: Muslim Saints, their Place and Space. Edited by Georg Stauth and Samuli Schielke. Transcript. 2008. Pp. 47-66.

“The Book of Visions: Dreams, Poetry, and Prophecy in Contemporary Egypt.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 39(2) 2007: 229-247.