| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Rethinking Homonationalism | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 2013 | 482 |
| 2 | Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed? | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1984 | 378 |
| 3 | The Islamic city – Historic Myth, Islamic Essence, and Contemporary Relevance | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1987 | 320 |
| 4 | THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE EGYPTIAN MUSLIM BROTHERS | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 2005 | 263 |
| 5 | Anatomy of Egypt's Militant Islamic Groups: Methodological Note and Preliminary Findings | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1980 | 237 |
| 6 | Clothing Laws, State, and Society in the Ottoman Empire, 1720–1829 | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1997 | 191 |
| 7 | The Transformation of the Ottoman State, 1789-1908 | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1972 | 183 |
| 8 | Religion and Politics in Egypt: The Ulema of Al-Azhar, Radical Islam, and the State (1952–94) | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1999 | 171 |
| 9 | Parameters and Strategies of Islam–State Interaction in Republican Turkey | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1996 | 170 |
| 10 | Class, Culture, and State: An Analysis of Interest Representation by Two Turkish Business Associations | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1998 | 159 |
| 11 | The Crisis of Minorities in Ethnic States: The Case of Palestinian Citizens in Israel | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1998 | 158 |
| 12 | The 1953Coup D'Etatin Iran | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1987 | 153 |
| 13 | Economic and Political Liberation in Egypt and the Demise of State Feminism | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1992 | 148 |
| 14 | The Separation of State and Religion in the Development of Early Islamic Society | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1975 | 145 |
| 15 | THE CONSTRUCTION OFSALAFIYYA: RECONSIDERING SALAFISM FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF CONCEPTUAL HISTORY | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 2010 | 145 |
| 16 | The Price Revolution of the Sixteenth Century: A Turning Point in the Economic History of the Near East | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1975 | 144 |
| 17 | POPULATION CHANGES IN OTTOMAN ANATOLIA DURING THE 16TH AND 17TH CENTURIES: THE “DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS” RECONSIDERED | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 2004 | 140 |
| 18 | CONFLICT AND COOPERATION BETWEEN THE STATE AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY EGYPT | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 2000 | 134 |
| 19 | GLOBALIZATION AND POLITICAL ISLAM: THE SOCIAL BASES OF TURKEY'S WELFARE PARTY | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 2001 | 134 |
| 20 | Ethnic Kurds in Turkey: A Demographic Study | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1996 | 132 |
| 21 | Ideology and History, Identity and Alterity: The Arab Image of the Turk From The ʿAbbasids to Modern Egypt | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1988 | 131 |
| 22 | Usurious Piety: The Cash Waqf Controversy in the Ottoman Empire | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1979 | 130 |
| 23 | Was al-Shafii the Master Architect of Islamic Jurisprudence? | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1993 | 130 |
| 24 | Social and Economic Position of Women in an Ottoman City, Bursa, 1600-1700 | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1980 | 127 |
| 25 | Defensive Democratization in Jordan | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1998 | 126 |
| 26 | THE CONDITIONS OF ISLAMIST MODERATION: UNPACKING CROSS-IDEOLOGICAL COOPERATION IN JORDAN | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 2006 | 126 |
| 27 | The Ottoman Emigration to America,1860–1914 | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1985 | 119 |
| 28 | Conjuring Pakistan: History as Official Imagining | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1995 | 117 |
| 29 | THE DUBAI MODEL: AN OUTLINE OF KEY DEVELOPMENT-PROCESS ELEMENTS IN DUBAI | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 2009 | 111 |
| 30 | Oriental Despotism: The Case of Qajar Iran | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1974 | 110 |
| 31 | Ideology and Religion in the Turkish Revolution | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1971 | 109 |
| 32 | THE CONSTITUTION OF MEDINA: A SOCIOLEGAL INTERPRETATION OF MUHAMMAD'S ACTS OF FOUNDATION OF THE UMMA | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 2009 | 108 |
| 33 | BEING A NONBELIEVER IN A TIME OF ISLAMIC REVIVAL: TRAJECTORIES OF DOUBT AND CERTAINTY IN CONTEMPORARY EGYPT | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 2012 | 108 |
| 34 | ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 2002 | 107 |
| 35 | Islam and Ideology: Towards a Typology | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1987 | 103 |
| 36 | Neo-Tribalism in Iraq: Saddam Hussein's Tribal Policies 1991–96 | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1997 | 99 |
| 37 | The Significance of the Sunni Schools of Law in Islamic Religious History | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1979 | 98 |
| 38 | Urban Population in Anatolia in the Sixteenth Century: A Study of Kayseri, Karaman, Amasya, Trabzon, and Erzurum | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1976 | 97 |
| 39 | Ottoman Political Writing, 1768–1808 | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1993 | 95 |
| 40 | MONARCHICAL AUTHORITARIANISM: SURVIVAL AND POLITICAL LIBERALIZATION IN A MIDDLE EASTERN REGIME TYPE | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 2004 | 95 |
| 41 | POPULAR UPRISINGS AND ARAB DEMOCRATIZATION | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 2000 | 93 |
| 42 | THE RISE OF THE SUBCONTRACTOR STATE: POLITICS OF PSEUDO-PRIVATIZATION IN THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 2013 | 93 |
| 43 | Two Women, One Man: Knowledge, Power, and Gender in Medieval Sunni Legal Thought | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1997 | 92 |
| 44 | REJECTIONIST ISLAMISM IN SAUDI ARABIA: THE STORY OF JUHAYMAN AL-ʿUTAYBI REVISITED | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 2007 | 92 |
| 45 | A NATION OF BUREAUCRATS: POLITICAL PARTICIPATION AND ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION IN KUWAIT AND THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 2009 | 89 |
| 46 | On the Authoritativeness of Sunni Consensus | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1986 | 88 |
| 47 | The Diner Versus the Ducat | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1973 | 87 |
| 48 | The Formation of an Ottoamn Egyptian Elite in the 18th Century | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1990 | 87 |
| 49 | The Accommodationists Speak:Goals and Strategies of the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 1995 | 87 |
| 50 | THE DECLINE OF JORDANIAN POLITICAL PARTIES: MYTH OR REALITY? | International Journal of Middle East Studies | 2001 | 87 |
