(2010) “Contextualizing Arguments on Women Imams in medieval legal Islamic Sources in special issue on Fiqh and Gender of Comparative Islamic Studies, edited by Marcia Hermansen), in print
(1996) “Cosmology and authority in Medieval Ismailism”, Diskus (The on-line Journal of International Religious Studies), 4,1, pp. 11-22
(1994) “Quranic exegesis of ‘alamin, in rabb al- ‘alamin”, BSOAS, LVII, 1, pp. 52-8
(1993) “ ‘Alam al-din in Ismailism: world of obedience or world of immobility?”, BSOAS, LVI, 3, pp. 459-69.
(2011) chapter in edited volume “Female seclusion and the veil: two issues in political and social discourse. The reforms of Sultan Muhammad Shah (b.1877-d. 1957), 48th imam of the Nizari Ismailis”, in Theodore Gabriel and Rabiha Hannan (eds) Islam and the Veil: theoretical and regional contexts, London: Continuum, pp.48-62.
(2009) chapter in edited book “Women and trade during the Fatimids” in Pellitteri, A and I. Magdud (eds) I Fatimidi e il Mediterraneo, AlifBa, 22, 2008, Palermo/Tripoli, pp. 71-80
(2011) “Classical sources on the permissibility of female imams: an analysis of some hadiths about Umm Waraqa”, in Verena Klemm et alia (eds), Sources and Approaches across Near Eastern Disciplines, Leuven: Peeters, in print
(2011) “Sources and evidence for the architectural patronage of Durzan”, in Talmon, D. (ed) Material Evidence and Narrative Sources, Interdisciplinary Studies for the History of Islamic Societies, Leiden: Brill, in print
(2006, 2007) (co-authored with Dr. D. Cortese) Women and the Fatimids in the world of Islam, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. Reprinted by Oxford University Press Pakistan in paperback in 2007 for distribution in Asia ISBN: 9780195474640
(2007) “The portrayal of the Ismaili da‘i and of his roles according to some Ismaili and early Fatimid authors” in U. VERMEULEN & K. D’HULSTER (eds.), Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras V. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 169), Leuven: Peeters, 2007 , in print ISBN: 978-90-429-1945-7
(2007) "Sayyida Rasad: a royal woman as “ gateway to power” during the Fatimid era” in U. VERMEULEN & K. D’HULSTER (eds.), Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid, Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras V. (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta), Leuven: Peeters, 2007
(2008)“Wealth and women at the Fatimid courts” in K. D’HULSTER & J. VAN STEENBERGEN (eds.), Traditions and Changes in the Realms of Islam. Studies in honour of Professor Urbain Vermeulen (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 171), Leuven: Peeters 2008 in print 978-90-429-1991-4
(2008)"Islam, Gender an Human Rights", in the edited book by A. Rippin, The Islamic World, Routledge
(2008) “Two Radical Hair Cuts in Medieval Egypt: Gendering Politics in Times of Trouble” Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean,
(2008) “Islam” chapter in Oxford University Press second edition of Atlas of the World’s Religions, (1st ed. 1999)
(Jan 2008)”Fatima bint Muhammad” “Queen Arwa” “ Egypt: 700-1500” Encyclopedia of Women in World History, New York: Oxford University Press proofs approved
(2008) 'Islam and Diversity: Alternative Voices within Contemporary Islam” New Blackfriars(Blackwell Publishing)
(2004) “Cosmology and authority in Medieval Ismailism” (in Czech), in Petr Fiala, Jiri Hanus and Jan Vybiral (eds.) Religious and political authority in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, Brno: CDK (The Centre for Democracy and Culture Studies), pp. 108-118.
(2003) "Lord (and lord)" in J.D. McAuliffe (ed) Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an Leiden: Brill, vol 3, pp. 229-231.
(1999) "Islam" in Smart .N. (ed.) Atlas of the World's religions, Oxford: OUP, pp. 168-195.
(1998) “Woman, sin and lust: the fall of Adam and Eve according to classical and modern Muslim exegesis”, in Hayes, Porter and Tombs (eds.), Religion and Sexuality, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, pp. 49-63
with Hala Kaleh (1993) The Intifada: a bibliography, Oxford: Melcom, 109 pp.
with D. Cortese and J.L.A. Webb (1992) Mauritania, Oxford: Clio Press, World Bibliographical Series, 165 pp