The Socratic Republic: Dialectic, Sophistry and the Quest for Universal Truth at 250
Pegasus, Caux Round Table
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Can the Davutoglu Middle Powers Plan Reopen Hormuz?
Informed Comment
That Time Iran Proposed a Dialogue of Civilizations instead of War
Informed Comment
Israel's Gaza War: A Symbol of Collapsing Civilization
In Genocide in Gaza: Voices of Global Conscience, eds. Ahmet Davutoglu and Richard Falk. Clarity Press, pp. 121–136.
Hope Under the Shadow of Darkness
Pegasus, Caux Round Table
Is the One-Sided US Response to the Gaza Crisis a Sign of our Civilizational Decline?
Informed Comment
Turkey Turned the Hagia Sophia back into a Mosque
Informed Comment
Iqbal's Visions of Civilization, Modernity and Nationalism: Are his Ideas Relevant Today?
In Islamska Kultura U Tranziciji: Eseji u cast Fikreta Karcica, ed. Ahmet Alibasic et al. Center for Advanced Studies, Sarajevo, pp. 77–100.
The OIC at Fifty: Between Hope and Despair
Al Sharq Forum
Is Pakistan a Failed State?
Insight Turkey 20, no. 1
The Question of Palestine and the Muslim World
New Middle Eastern Studies 8, no. 2
Bernard Lewis: A Legacy of Knowledge but not Wisdom
Middle East Monitor. A narrated version is available on the page.
Anti-Muslim Violence in Sri Lanka: Reasons and Lessons
Anadolu Agency
Revisiting Pakistan's Foundation Seventy Years Later
Anadolu Agency
The Rohingya Crisis and the Role of the OIC
Al Jazeera
The Never-Ending Kashmir Dispute
Al-Shajarah 22, no. 1
Qur'anic Guidance for Good Governance: A Contemporary Perspective
Co-edited with Stephen B. Young. Palgrave Macmillan, New York.
What is History?
International Journal of Islamic Thoughts 5, no. 1, pp. 17–32
Problems of Eurocentric Views of History
Al-Shajarah 18, no. 1
Civilizational Conflict, Renewal, or Transformation
Islam and Civilisational Renewal 4, no. 4
Dialogue of Civilizations: Islamic and Western Perceptions
Al-Shajarah 16, no. 2
The Clash of Civilizations Thesis and Muslims: The Search for an Alternative Paradigm
Islamic Studies 48, no. 2, pp. 189–217
Law, Religion and Human Dignity in the Muslim World Today: An Examination of the OIC's Cairo Declaration of Human Rights
Journal of Law and Religion 24, no. 2, pp. 569–597
Guidance for Good Governance: Explorations in Qur'anic, Scientific and Cross-cultural Approaches
Co-edited with Stephen B. Young. IIUM Press and Caux Round Table. Second edition 2013.
Political Discourse of the Organization of the Islamic Conference
In The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought
The Organization of the Islamic Conference: History, Function and Organization
In Malaysia and the Islamic World, ed. Abdul Razak Baginda. ASEAN Academic Press, London, pp. 31–68.
Conflict among Muslim Nations: Role of the OIC in Conflict Resolution
Intellectual Discourse 12, no. 2
Pakistan since Independence
The Muslim World 93, nos. 3–4, pp. 351–371
On History, Progress and Civilization
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 19, no. 2
Muslim and European Perceptions of Oceanic Trade
Intellectual Discourse 7, no. 2
Elite Formation in Muslim Countries: Capable Administrators or Loyal Servants?
Islamic Studies 37, no. 1
Images of Islam: Islamic Terrorism or Terrorizing the Truth?
Pakistan Journal of History and Culture 18, no. 2
Muslim Transnationalism: Implications for the US
Muslim Politics Report no. 8, Council on Foreign Relations, pp. 6–7
A History of Khulafa-i-Rashidun
Iqra International Educational Foundation, Chicago. Reprinted five times.
The Spread of Islam in Pre-Mughal Bengal
Intellectual Discourse 2, no. 1, pp. 41–55
Ummah or Nation: Identity Crisis in Contemporary Muslim Society
The Islamic Foundation, Leicester. Turkish and Bosnian editions. Reviewed by John Obert Voll in the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 10, no. 4 (1993), and by Abdul Rashid Moten in Intellectual Discourse 1, no. 1 (1993).
OIC: Introduction to an Islamic Political Institution
International Institute of Islamic Thought, Herndon. Arabic edition.
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Not listed above: nine signed book reviews published between 1982 and 2011, chiefly in the Muslim World Book Review and the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences; an encyclopedia entry on Amir Ali for the Turkish Islam Ansiklopedisi; and conference papers delivered in Turkish at the Istanbul Fetih Sempozyumu in 1996 and 1997. Citation file for the five books: al-ahsan-books.bib.