Selected Publications
- Faith and Culture Focus Study, for Coventry UK City of Culture 2021 (with Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor, Dinesh Passi and Dan Range), February 2023.
- “Islamic Social Ethics, Social Work and the Common Good: Learning from Western Contexts”, in H. Schmid, A. Sheikhzadegan (eds.) (2022), Exploring Islamic Social Work, Muslims in Global Societies Series 9, Springer International Publishing.
- Findings of the Leeds Anti-Muslim Hatred Survey 2020, produced for Leeds City Council (with Tom Fisher), 2021.
- “Towards a British Islam”, in Interreligous Insight, Vol 17, No 1, June 2019.
- Islam, Diversity and Context, (EU research project report) with Gwen Griffith-Dickson and Peter Mandaville, 2019.
- Muslims in Leicester (with research team), Open Society Foundation, 2010.
- Somalis in Leicester (with research team), Open Society Foundation, 2014.
- “British Muslim identity”, in British Muslims between Assimilation and Segregation, The Islamic Foundation, Leicester, 2004.
- “Councillors and Caliphs: Muslim Political Participation in Britain“, in British Muslims between Assimilation and Segregation, The Islamic Foundation, Leicester, 2004.
- “Why Muslims Can Be Enriched Through Interfaith Engagement”, in Interreligous Insight, Vol 18, No 2 (Dec 2020).
- Building an EU International Exchange Platform on Religion & Social Inclusion (EU research project report) with Gwen Griffith-Dickson and Peter Mandaville (2019).
- “Beyond identity politics: can Muslims develop a narrative of the common good?”, in Crucible: The Journal of Christian Social Ethics (October 2017)
- “Belonging Without Believing: Religion, Atheism and Islam today”, in: A. Carroll and R. Norman, (2017) Religion and Atheism: Beyond the Divide, Routledge, Oxon, UK.
- Contextualising Islam in Europe and North America: Challenges and Opportunities, with Peter Mandaville, Brookings, US, 2015.
- ‘[Muslims in] The UK’ in J.S. Nielsen et al (eds.) Yearbook of Muslims in Europe Vol 6, Brill, Leiden, 2014.
- ‘[Muslims in] The UK’ in J.S. Nielsen et al (eds.) Yearbook of Muslims in Europe Vol 5, Brill, Leiden, 2013.
- ‘Can Muslims Think Universally? Human Rights as a Challenge for Reform’, Amos International Journal (July 2013).
- ‘Social Policy, Cultural Integration and Faith: A Muslim Perspective’, Journal of Social Policy and Society (October 2012 Special Issue).
- ‘How did the Muslim Community Come to be Where it is Today?’ in: T. Bayfield, A. Race and A. Siddiqui (Eds) (2012) Beyond the Dysfunctional Family: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Dialogue With Each Other and With Britain.
- British Secularism and Religion: Islam, Society and the State, co-edited book, Kube Publishing, Leicester, 2010.
- “Europe, Muslims in” entry in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, Oxford University Press, 2009.
- “Islam” in Zaki Cooper and Guy Lodge (eds.), Faith in the Nation: religion, identity and the public realm in Britain today, IPPR, December 2008.
- Leading the preventing violent extremism agenda: a role made for councillors, Local Government Association, 2008.
- “Islamophobia: Old Wine in New Bottles?”, in Islamophobia and the Challenges of Pluralism in the 21st Century, ACMCU Occasional Papers, August 2008.
- “Faith and Solidarity” in Nick Johnson (ed.), Citizenship, Cohesion and Solidarity, The Smith Institute, June 2008.
- “British Muslims in the anti-terror age” in Global Dialogue, Vol. 9, No. 3-4, Summer / Autumn 2007.
- Faith as Social Capital – Connecting or Dividing? Report of a Joseph-Rowntree Foundation research project with Rob Furbey, et al., March 2006.
- Chapter on ‘Can Islam Make us British?’ in Madeleine Bunting (ed.) Islam, Race and Being British, Guardian Publications, 2005.
- Report on Islam and Fundamental Rights in Europe, jointly with Professor Jocelyne Cesari and Alexandre Caeiro, the European Commission, 2005.
- Report on Mapping Jewish-Muslim Dialogue in UK sponsored by the Stone-Ashdown Foundation, with Dr Keith Kahn-Harris et al., July 2005.
- ‘Muslim Political Participation in Britain and the ‘Europeanisation’ of Fiqh’ in Die Welt des Islam, Brill, Leiden, Winter 2004.
- British Muslims between Assimilation and Segregation, co-authored book, The Islamic Foundation, Leicester, 2004.
- British Muslims: Loyalty and Belonging, co-edited book, The Islamic Foundation, Leicester, 2003.
- ‘The Holy Grail of Muslims in Western Europe: Representation and Relationship with the State’, in Esposito and Burgat (eds.), Modernizing Islam: Religion in the Public Sphere in Europe and the Middle East. Hurst & Co., London, 2003.