Theorizing Islam in World History
Introduction to Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence (1998)
Islam in Afro-Eurasia: A Bridge Civilization (2010)
Muslim Cosmopolitanism (2012)
Genius Denied and Reclaimed: Hodgson's The Venture of Islam (2014)
Revaluing Muslim Comparativists
Al-Biruni: Against the Grain (2014)
Shahrastani on Indian Idol Worship (1973)
Introduction to Ibn Khaldun's Muqaddimah (2005/2015)
Mystical and Rational Elements in the Early Religious Writings of Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan (1979)
Translating Institutional Sufism
Can Sufi Texts Be Translated? Can They Be Translated from Indo-Persian to American-English? (1990)
"What Is a Sufi Order? 'Golden Age' and 'Decline' in the Historiography of Sufism," from Sufi Martyrs of Love: The Chishti Order in South Asia and Beyond (2002, Coauthored with Carl W. Ernst)
Sufism and Neo-Sufism (2010)
"Allah Remembered: Practice of the Heart," from Who Is Allah? (2015)
Deconstructing Religious Modernity
"Fundamentalism as a Religious Ideology in Multiple Contexts" and Conclusion, from Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Modern Age (1989)
"The Shah Bano Case," from On Violence: A Reader (2007)
Introduction to Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden (2005)
Muslim Engagement with Injustice and Violence (2013)
Networking Muslim Citizenship
Preface and Conclusion, from New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life (2002)
"W. D. Mohammed: Qur'an as Guide to Racial Equality," from The Qur'an: A Biography (2006)
Introduction to Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop (2005, Coauthored with Miriam Cooke)
"AIDS Victims and Sick Women: Qur'an as Prescription for Mercy," from The Qur'an: A Biography (2006)
Reflecting the Divine Other in Words and Images
Approximating Saj in English Renditions of the Qur'an: A Close Reading of Sura 93 (al-Ḍuḥā) and the Basmala (2005)
Epilogue to The Qur'an: A Biography (2006)
A Metaphysical Secularist? Decoding M. F. Husain as a Muslim Painter in Exile (2011)
Conclusion, from Who Is Allah? (2015)
The Future of Islamic Studies: Bruce B. Lawrence Interviewed by Ali Altaf Mian.