| Turabi's revolution: Islam and power in Sudan AA El-Affendi Grey Seal, 1991 | 250 | 1991 |
| who Needs an Islamic State A El-Affendi 978-1856400220, 1991 | 117* | 1991 |
| Islamic democratic discourse: Theory, debates, and philosophical perspectives MAM Khan Lexington Books, 2006 | 91 | 2006 |
| The impasse in the IGAD peace process for Sudan: the limits of regional peacemaking? A El‐Affendi African Affairs 100 (401), 581-599, 2001 | 89 | 2001 |
| 'Discovering the South': Sudanese Dilemmas for Islam in Africa A El-Affendi African Affairs 89 (356), 371-389, 1990 | 58 | 1990 |
| (Co-author) Contextualising Islam in Britain: exploratory perspectives AA El-Affendi Centre of Islamic Studies, 2009 | 55 | 2009 |
| The perils of regionalism: regional integration as a source of instability in the Horn of Africa? A El-Affendi Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding 3 (1), 1-19, 2009 | 51 | 2009 |
| Masyarakat Tak Bernegara; Kritik Teori Politik Islam A El-Affendi LKIS PELANGI AKSARA, 1994 | 50 | 1994 |
| The elusive reformation A El-Affendi J. Democracy 14, 34, 2003 | 47 | 2003 |
| Democracy and its (Muslim) critics: an Islamic alternative to democracy? A El-Affendi Islamic democratic discourse: theory, debates, and philosophical …, 2006 | 31 | 2006 |
| On the state, democracy and pluralism AA El-Affendi IB Tauris, 2004 | 31 | 2004 |
| Political culture and the crisis of democracy in the Arab world A El-Affendi Democracy in the Arab world: Explaining the deficit 27, 11, 2011 | 29 | 2011 |
| Eclipse of reason: The media in the Muslim world A El-Affendi Journal of International Affairs, 163-193, 1993 | 27 | 1993 |
| Rethinking Islam and modernity: Essays in honour of Fathi Osman A El-Affendi (No Title), 2001 | 24 | 2001 |
| Studying my movement: Social science without cynicism A El-Affendi International Journal of Middle East Studies 23 (1), 83-94, 1991 | 23 | 1991 |
| The people on the edge: religious reform and the burden of the Western Muslim intellectual AA El-Affendi Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review 8, 19-50, 2009 | 15 | 2009 |
| Islamic movements: establishment, significance and contextual realities AA El-Affendi Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, 2004 | 14 | 2004 |
| Genocidal nightmares: narratives of insecurity and the logic of mass atrocities A El-Affendi Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2014 | 13 | 2014 |
| Revolutionary anatomy: the lessons of the Sudanese revolutions of October 1964 and April 1985 A El-Affendi Contemporary Arab Affairs 5 (2), 292-306, 2012 | 13 | 2012 |
| The long march from Lahore to Khartoum: beyond the ‘Muslim reformation’ A El‐Affendi British Society for Middle Eastern Studies. Bulletin 17 (2), 137-151, 1990 | 13 | 1990 |
