| Colonialism and revolution in the Middle East: social and cultural origins of Egypt's' Urabi movement JR Cole American Univ in Cairo Press, 1999 | 489 | 1999 |
| Napoleon's Egypt: Invading the Middle East J Cole St. Martin's Press, 2007 | 359 | 2007 |
| Shi'ism and social protest JR Cole, NR Keddie Yale University Press, 1986 | 309 | 1986 |
| Roots of North Indian Shiism in Iran and Iraq: Religion and State in Awadh, 1722-1859. J Cole University of California Press, 1988 | 292 | 1988 |
| Sacred Space and Holy W z: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi ‘ite Islam J Cole | 279 | 2003 |
| Modernity and the millennium: the genesis of the Baha'i faith in the nineteenth-century Middle East JR Cole Columbia University Press, 1998 | 187 | 1998 |
| Feminism, class, and Islam in turn-of-the-century Egypt JR Cole International Journal of Middle East Studies 13 (4), 387-407, 1981 | 177 | 1981 |
| Engaging the Muslim world J Cole St. Martin's Press, 2009 | 158 | 2009 |
| The United States and Shi'ite religious factions in post-Ba'thist Iraq J Cole The Middle East Journal, 543-566, 2003 | 143 | 2003 |
| The new Arabs: How the millennial generation is changing the Middle East J Cole Simon and Schuster, 2014 | 121 | 2014 |
| Nationalism and the colonial legacy in the Middle East and Central Asia: Introduction JRI Cole, D Kandiyoti International Journal of Middle East Studies 34 (2), 189-203, 2002 | 109 | 2002 |
| The Taliban, women, and the Hegelian private sphere JRI Cole Social Research: An International Quarterly 70 (3), 771-808, 2003 | 91 | 2003 |
| The ayatollahs and democracy in Iraq JR Cole Amsterdam University Press, 2006 | 90 | 2006 |
| Shi'i Clerics in Iraq and Iran, 1722–1780: The Akhbari-Usuli Conflict Reconsidered J Cole Iranian Studies 18 (1), 3-34, 1985 | 75 | 1985 |
| Imami jurisprudence and the role of the Ulama: Mortaza Ansari on emulating the Supreme Exemplar JR Cole Religion and Politics in Iran, 33-46, 1983 | 73 | 1983 |
| Printing and urban Islam in the Mediterranean world, 1890–1920 JRI Cole Modernity and Culture from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, 1890-1920 …, 2002 | 68 | 2002 |
| Marking boundaries, marking time: the Iranian past and the construction of the self by Qajar thinkers JRI Cole Iranian Studies 29 (1-2), 35-56, 1996 | 65 | 1996 |
| ‘Indian money’and the Shi'i shrine cities of Iraq, 1786–1850 JRI Cole Middle Eastern Studies 22 (4), 461-480, 1986 | 63 | 1986 |
| Invisible Occidentalism: eighteenth-century Indo-Persian constructions of the West JRI Cole Iranian Studies 25 (3-4), 3-16, 1992 | 62 | 1992 |
| Iranian Millenarianism and Demorcratic Thought in the 19th Century JRI Cole International Journal of Middle East Studies 24 (1), 1-26, 1992 | 57 | 1992 |
