Articles/Chapters
2022 “Swahili Arabic: Imitation, Islam, and the Semiotics of Race in Zanzibar,” in Zain Abdullah (ed.), Routledge Handbook on Islam and Race. New York: Routledge (forthcoming).

2021. “’Useful’ Knowledge and Moral Education in Zanzibar Between Colonial and Islamic Reform, 1916-1945,” Islamic Africa Vol. 12, Issue 1.

2021. “Modernizing the Madrasa: Islamic Education, Development and Tradition in Zanzibar,” in Ousmane Kane (ed.), Islamic Scholarship in Africa: New Directions and Global Contexts. Rochester, NY: James Currey.

2016. “Making Africa Legible: Kiswahili Arabic and Orthographic Romanization in Colonial Zanzibar,” American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences Vol. 33, Issue 3.

Essay
2022. “Tuko Pamoja: Collaborative North-South Research, Temporality, and Togetherness in Zanzibar, Tanzania,” Items: Insights from the Social Sciences (Social Science Research Council) with Mary Khatib and Issa Ziddy.

Encyclopedia Entry
2011. “Ibrahim Mohamed, Khalil.” In Dictionary of African Biography. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Emmanuel Akyeampong (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Reviews
2017. Review of Goolam Vahed and Thembisa Waetjen, Schooling Muslims in Natal: Identity, State and the Orient Islamic Educational Institute, African Studies Quarterly Vol XVII No. 1 (March)
2015. Review of Shari’a in Africa Today: Reactions and Responses (John Chesworth and Franz Kogelmann, eds.), Islamic Africa Vol. 6, Issue 1-2.
2014. Review of Marloes Janson, Islam, Youth, and Modernity In The Gambia: The Tablighi Jama‘at, African Studies Quarterly Vol. XIV No. 4 (September).