| Islamism and democracy in India: the transformation of Jamaat-e-Islami I Ahmad Princeton University Press, 2010 | 306 | 2010 |
| Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace I Ahmad Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017 | 123 | 2017 |
| Genealogy of the Islamic state: reflections on Maududi's political thought and Islamism I Ahmad Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 15, S145-S162, 2009 | 102 | 2009 |
| Cracks in the ‘Mightiest Fortress’: Jamaat-e-Islami's changing discourse on women I Ahmad Modern Asian Studies 42 (2-3), 549-575, 2008 | 70 | 2008 |
| A different jihad: Dalit Muslims' challenge to Ashraf hegemony I Ahmad Economic and Political Weekly, 4886-4891, 2003 | 53 | 2003 |
| Immanent critique and Islam: Anthropological reflections I Ahmad Anthropological theory 11 (1), 107-132, 2011 | 42 | 2011 |
| Democracy and Islam I Ahmad Toward New Democratic Imaginaries-İstanbul Seminars on Islam, Culture and …, 2016 | 41 | 2016 |
| Between moderation and radicalization: transnational interactions of Jamaat‐e‐Islami of India I Ahmad Global Networks 5 (3), 279-299, 2005 | 38 | 2005 |
| From Islamism to post-Islamism: the transformation of the Jamaat-e-Islami in North India I Ahmad | 25 | 2005 |
| Injustice and the New World Order: an anthropological perspective on “terrorism” in India I Ahmad Critical Studies on Terrorism, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| Islam and politics in South Asia I Ahmad, J Esposito, EED Shahin Oxford University Press, 2013 | 20 | 2013 |
| Sir Syed Ahmad Khan I Ahmad The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, 27-28, 2013 | 18 | 2013 |
| In defense of ho (s) tels: Islamophobia, domophilia, liberalism I Ahmad (Il) liberal Europe: Islamophobia, Modernity and Radicalization, 67-84, 2019 | 17 | 2019 |
| The state in Islamist thought I Ahmad ISIM review 18 (1), 12-13, 2006 | 15 | 2006 |
| Democracy in Jail: Over-representation of Minorities in Indian Prisons I Ahmad, Z Siddiqui Economic & Political Weekly 54 (44), 98-106., 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
| Theorizing islamism and democracy: Jamaat-e-islami in india I Ahmad Citizenship Studies 16 (7), 887-903, 2012 | 13 | 2012 |
| Anthropological publics, public anthropology S Bangstad, I Ahmad, I Feldman, JR Bowen, A Haugerud, DH Price, ... HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7 (1), 489-508, 2017 | 12 | 2017 |
| The secular state and the geography of radicalism I Ahmad Economic and Political Weekly, 33-38, 2009 | 12 | 2009 |
| POWER, PURITY AND THE VANGUARD: Educational ideology of the Jama’at-i Islami of India I Ahmad Madrasas in South Asia, 152-174, 2007 | 12 | 2007 |
| Introduction: Islamophobia, European Modernity and Contemporary Illiberalism NJ Doyle, I Ahmad (Il) liberal Europe: Islamophobia, Modernity and Radicalization, 1-5, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
