| From shamanism to Sufism: women, Islam and culture in Central Asia R Sultanova Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011 | 121 | 2011 |
| Music and identity in Central Asia: introduction R Sultanova Ethnomusicology Forum 14 (2), 131-142, 2005 | 56 | 2005 |
| Female celebrations in Uzbekistan and Afghanistan: The power of cosmology in musical rites R Sultanova Yearbook for traditional music 40, 8-20, 2008 | 14 | 2008 |
| The classical music of Uzbeks and Tajiks T Levin, R Sultanova The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music 6, 1997 | 12 | 1997 |
| From Shamanism to Sufism: Women R Sultanova Islam and Culture in Central Asia, 2011 | 10 | 2011 |
| Sacred Knowledge: Schools Or Revelation?: Master-apprentice System of Oral Transmission in the Music of the Turkic Speaking World R Sultanova Lambert Academic Publishing, 2009 | 9 | 2009 |
| Turkic Soundscapes: From Shamanic Voices to Hip-Hop R Sultanova, M Rancier Routledge, 2018 | 6 | 2018 |
| Yassavi zikr in twenty-first century Central Asia: sound, place and authenticity R Sultanova Performing Islam 1 (1), 129-151, 2012 | 6 | 2012 |
| From Shamanism to Sufism R Sultanova IB Tauris, 2011 | 5 | 2011 |
| En soulevant le voile. Les femmes dans les cultures traditionnelles du monde turcophone R Sultanova Cahiers d’ethnomusicologie. Anciennement Cahiers de musiques traditionnelles …, 2005 | 4 | 2005 |
| Afghanistan Dispossessed: Women, Culture and the Taliban R Sultanova Afghanistan Dispossessed, 1-224, 2023 | 3 | 2023 |
| Sacred knowledge: schools or revelation R Sultanova Master-Apprentice System of Oral, 2009 | 2 | 2009 |
| Female Sufism in Central Asia: from poetry to music R Sultanova Conference on Music in the world of Islam. Assilah 8, 13, 2007 | 2 | 2007 |
| Entre femmes R Sultanova Cahiers de Musique traditionnelles 18, 2005 | 2 | 2005 |
| Maqom, Mugham, Maqam: Contemporary Issues Of Preservation And Transmission R Sultanova Chair of the ICTM Study Group" Music of the Turkic Speaking World", ICTM …, 2015 | 1 | 2015 |
| Sacred Voices of the Past: Russian and Soviet Research into Kyrgyz Epic Manas R SULTANOVA Asian Research Trends New Series 5, 59-80, 2010 | 1 | 2010 |
| Çeviri: Orta Asya’da Müzik ve Kimlik R SULTANOVA Dergi Karadeniz; Sayı: 13, 2005 | 1 | 2005 |
| < Special Feature “The Encounter with Religious Others through Music and Musician in the Islamic World”> Islamic and Sufi Soundscape in Central Asia: Genres, Rituals, and Laments R SULTANOVA イスラーム世界研究 16, 32-44, 2023 | | 2023 |
| Becoming Family: A Female Ethnomusicologist Contemplates Fieldwork in Central Asia R Sultanova The Routledge Companion to Ethics and Research in Ethnomusicology, 161-169, 2022 | | 2022 |
| “Let me take your pain away”: Female shamanism in a Central Asian soundscape R Sultanova The Shamaness in Asia, 155-166, 2020 | | 2020 |
