| Boko Haram: the history of an African jihadist movement A Thurston Princeton University Press, 2018 | 328 | 2018 |
| ‘The disease is unbelief’: Boko Haram’s religious and political worldview A Thurston Brookings Institution, 2016 | 172 | 2016 |
| Salafism in Nigeria: Islam, Preaching, and Politics A Thurston Cambridge University Press, 2016 | 170 | 2016 |
| Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel: Local politics and rebel groups A Thurston Cambridge University Press, 2020 | 99 | 2020 |
| A handbook on Mali's 2012-2013 crisis A Thurston, A Lebovich Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa, 2013 | 69 | 2013 |
| The Jihadi Threat:. R Wright, JM Berger, W Braniff, C Bunzel, D Byman, J Cafarella, ... United States Institute of Peace, 2016 | 66 | 2016 |
| Islamic education in Africa: Writing boards and blackboards CA Babou, LJK Bonate, T Tamari, C Fortier, MS Umar, R Loimeier, ... Indiana University Press, 2016 | 56 | 2016 |
| A Response to Jacob Zenn on Boko Haram and al-Qa ‘ida A Higazi, B Kendhammer, K Mohammed, MAP De Montclos, A Thurston Perspectives on Terrorism 12 (2), 203-213, 2018 | 50 | 2018 |
| Nigeria’s mainstream Salafis between Boko Haram and the state A Thurston Islamic Africa 6 (1-2), 109-134, 2015 | 41 | 2015 |
| Towards an" Islamic Republic of Mali?" A Thurston The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, 45-66, 2013 | 35 | 2013 |
| Mali: The Disintegration of a" Model African Democracy" A Thurston Stability: International Journal of Security and Development 2 (1), 2013 | 33 | 2013 |
| Background to Nigeria's 2015 Elections A Thurston Center for Strategic and International Studies 26, 1-21, 2015 | 28 | 2015 |
| Muslim politics and shari’a in Kano State, Northern Nigeria A Thurston African Affairs 114 (454), 28-51, 2015 | 26 | 2015 |
| Amnesty for Boko Haram: Lessons from the past A Thurston Africa Futures 20, 2013 | 26 | 2013 |
| Franco-African military intervention in the Mali crisis and evolving security concerns FC Onuoha, A Thurston Al Jazeera Center for Studies, 2-5, 2013 | 20 | 2013 |
| The politics of technocracy in Fourth Republic Nigeria A Thurston African Studies Review 61 (1), 215-238, 2018 | 19 | 2018 |
| Threat of Militancy in Nigeria A Thurston CEIP: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2011 | 19 | 2011 |
| Mauritania's Islamists A Thurston Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2012 | 17 | 2012 |
| Why Is Militant Islam a Weak Phenomenon in Senegal? A Thurston Diagne and Umar, 1-8, 2009 | 17 | 2009 |
| Political settlements with jihadists in Algeria and the Sahel A Thurston OECD, 2018 | 16 | 2018 |
