| Secularism and state policies toward religion: The United States, France, and Turkey AT Kuru Cambridge University Press, 2009 | 1225 | 2009 |
| Passive and assertive secularism: Historical conditions, ideological struggles, and state policies toward religion AT Kuru World Politics 59 (4), 568-594, 2007 | 571 | 2007 |
| Islam, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment: A global and historical comparison AT Kuru Cambridge University Press, 2019 | 227 | 2019 |
| Democracy, Islam, & Secularism in Turkey A Kuru, A Stepan Columbia University Press, 2012 | 184* | 2012 |
| Globalization and diversification of Islamic movements: three Turkish cases AT Kuru Political Science Quarterly 120 (2), 253-274, 2005 | 173 | 2005 |
| Reinterpretation of secularism in Turkey: The case of the Justice and Development Party AT Kuru The Emergence of a New Turkey: Democracy, 2006 | 170 | 2006 |
| The rise and fall of military tutelage in Turkey: Fears of Islamism, Kurdism, and Communism AT Kuru Insight Turkey 14 (2), 37, 2012 | 152 | 2012 |
| Pasif ve dışlayıcı laiklik: ABD, Fransa ve Türkiye AT Kuru İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2011 | 147* | 2011 |
| Secularism, state policies, and Muslims in Europe analyzing French exceptionalism AT Kuru Comparative Politics 41 (1), 1-19, 2008 | 102 | 2008 |
| Fethullah Gülen's search for a middle way between modernity and Muslim tradition AT Kuru Turkish Islam and the secular state, 115-130, 2003 | 102* | 2003 |
| Between the state and cultural zones: nation building in Turkmenistan AT Kuru Central Asian Survey 21 (1), 71-90, 2002 | 96 | 2002 |
| Authoritarianism and democracy in Muslim countries: Rentier states and regional diffusion AT Kuru Political Science Quarterly 129 (3), 399-427, 2014 | 71 | 2014 |
| The rentier state model and Central Asian studies: The Turkmen case A Kuru Alternatives: Turkish Journal of International Relations 1 (1), 2002 | 67 | 2002 |
| Apolitical interpretation of Islam: Said Nursi's faith-based activism in comparison with political Islamism and Sufism ZA Kuru, AT Kuru Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 19 (1), 99-111, 2008 | 65 | 2008 |
| Changing perspectives on islamism and secularism in Turkey: The Gülen Movement and the AK Party AT Kuru Muslim world in transition: Contributions of the Gülen movement, 140-51, 2007 | 62 | 2007 |
| Muslim Politics Without an" Islamic" State: Can Turkey's Justice and Development Party be a Model for Arab Islamists? AT Kuru Brookings Institution Doha Center, 2013 | 56* | 2013 |
| Turkey's failed policy toward the Arab Spring: Three levels of analysis AT Kuru Mediterranean Quarterly 26 (3), 94-116, 2015 | 55 | 2015 |
| Laïcité as an ‘ideal type’and a continuum: comparing Turkey, France, and Senegal AT Kuru, A Stepan Democracy, Islam, and secularism in Turkey, 95-121, 2012 | 48 | 2012 |
| Avrupa'da İslam, laiklik ve demokrasi: Fransa, Almanya ve Hollanda A Yükleyen, AT Kuru TESEV Yayınları, 2006 | 42* | 2006 |
| Secularism in Turkey: myths and realities AT Kuru Insight Turkey, 101-110, 2008 | 26 | 2008 |
