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  • ‘ϳܰ’aic Happiness: Feelings as Moral Understanding in Late Antiquity’ in The Routledge History of Happiness, ed. Kate Barclay, Derrin McMahon, and Peter Stearns (London: Routledge, 2024), 102-118.
  • ‘ϳܰ’aic Plot and the Practice of Emotional Virtue, with the Example of Al-Aʿrāf (Q. 7)’, (with Feras Hamza) in Grasping Emotion: Approaches to Emotions in Interreligious and Interdisciplinary Discourse, ed. Melanie Peetz, Ute Eisen, and Heidrun Mader (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2024), 229-253.
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  • ‘A Note on the Relationship Between ղڲ and Common Understanding, with Reference to Contracts of Marriage’, in Islamic Cultures, Islamic Contexts: Essays in Honor of Professor Patricia Crone. Asad Ahmed, Robert Hoyland, Behnam Sadeghi, and Adam Silverstein, eds. Leiden: Brill, 2014, 97-111.
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  • ‘Debates on Women’s Status as Judges and Witnesses in Post-Formative Islamic law’.Journal of the American Oriental Society130.1 (2010), 1-21.
  • ‘The Male is not Like the Female (Q 3:36): The Question of Gender Egalitarianism in the Qur’ān’.Religion Compass3/4 (2009), 637–654.
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  • The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority, Genderby Shahla Haeri,The American Historical Review128.1 (2023), 538–539.
  • The Study ϳܰ’aby Seyyed Hossein Nasr, et. al., eds.American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences34.3 (2017), 75-78.
  • Women in Classical Islamic Law: A Survey of the Sourcesby Susan Spectorsky, review inIslamic Law and Society23.1-2 (2016), 147-150.
  • Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition: Ethics, Law, and the Muslim Discourse on Gender, by Ayesha S. Chaudhry, review inJournal of ϳܰ’aic Studies17.2 (2015), 132-136.
  • Across the Religious Divide: Women, Property and Law in the Wider Mediterranean (ca. 1300-1800), ed. Sperling and Wray, review inJerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam38 (2011), 415-420.
  • The Blackwell Companion to the Qur’āned. Andrew Rippin, review inJournal of the American Oriental Society129.2 (2009), 307-311.
  • Woman’s identity in the Qur’ān, by Nimat Hafez Barazangi, review inJournal of Middle East Women’s Studies, 4:3 (Fall, 2008), 131-134.
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  • Reminiscences on being a student of Patricia Crone’s, entitled ‘With all Good Wishes’,al-Usur al-Wusta, November 2015.
  • Veiled Voices(2009), a documentary film: writer and co-producer; the film is directed and produced by Brigid Maher. Veiled Voices follows Muslim women religious leaders in the Middle East, exploring their relationship to tradition and modernity.