OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Muslim World is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Neglected Research with Neglected Data: Barriers and Opportunities in Research on Sunni Muslims in Contemporary Iran	4
Women's Testimony in Criminal Law (Ḥudūd and Qiṣāṣ): Classical Islamic Frameworks, Contemporary Applications, and Normative Tensions	3
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Writing the History of Mount Lebanon: Church Historians and Maronite Identity by MouannesHojairi. Cairo, Egypt: AUC Press, 2021, 220 pp. (hardcover), ISBN 978‐1‐64903‐125‐9	2
The Work of Constructive Muslim Thought and Engaged Scholarship	2
Islamic Algorithms: Online Influence in the Muslim Metaverse By Gary R.Bunt. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. 326 pp., ISBN: 1350418269, ISBN13: 978‐1350418264	2
Ḥuṭṭ awlawīya lil‐ʻilm! Sherif Gaber's YouTube Videos and His Views on Science and Religion	2
US‐Iran Relations: Challenges and Opportunities	2
Al‐MadinaDocument in ContemporaryArab‐Muslimand Western Scholarship: Surveying and Assessing some Intellectual Orientations and Reading Strategies¹	2
Raisi and Iran's Foreign Policy Toward the South Caucasus	1
The Reformist Faction after the 2021 Presidential Elections: Diverging Strategies and the Notion of “Structural Reforms”	1
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Iranian Religious Intellectuals and Challenges to the Dominant Discourses on Hijab	1
Back to the Future in Iran: Political and Policy Implications of the 2021 Presidential Elections	1
“They Don't Look at You as a Real Muslim”: the racial exclusion of black American Muslim converts	1
Bridging the Gap: Addressing the Challenge of Language and Access to Scholarship Produced Outside Iran	1
Islamization and Politicization of Social Sciences in Iranian Schools	1
Higher Objectives of Islamic Law ( Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa ) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax	1
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Academic Precariat: Practicing Social Sciences in Iran	1
Where in the World is the “Muslim World”? Reflections on Islam Is a Foreign Country after the Muslim Bans	1
Does the mark of the Beast lead to salvation? Some hypotheses on the eschatological meaning of the mark of the Beast in Christianity and Islam	1
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The Militarization of Iran's Perception of Saudi Arabia	1

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Tutoring Bahmanyār “from behind a veil”: the Ishārāt in Avicenna’s professional career	1
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Iran's 2021 Election as a Turning Point from Electoral Authoritarianism to Hegemonic Autocracy	1
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Intellectual Hijra: Thinking In and Out of the Burning House of the Western Academy	0
Environment, Sustainability, and the Work of Constructive Muslim Theology	0
Political Philosophy of Shaykhīsm: Conservative Nationalism in the Time of Crisis	0
Bridging the Scholarly Divide: Iran's Strategic Pivot to Asia and the Foreign Policy Imperative of Asian Studies in Academia	0
Analyzing al‐Ghazali's Perspective on Christianity: A Critical Examination of al‐Raddu al‐Jamīlu li Ilahiyyat ʿĪsā	0
Christian‐Muslim Relations Today: A Response to David Marshall	0
Constructive Feminist Theology and Islamic Studies	0
Iranian History and Historiography: Perspectives and Prospects	0
An Occasionalist Reading of Al‐Ashʿarī's Theory of Kasb in Kitāb al‐Lumaʿ	0
Interreligious Dialogue in Malaysia: Religious Pluralism, Daʿwah and Minority Rights	0
James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”	0
Iran and the Second Karabakh War	0
Rehabilitating the Shari'a: Ahmad Ibrahim and Reformation of Laws in Southeast Asia	0
Reading Marx in Tehran: The Social Sciences in Iran	0
The Qur’an: A Verse Translation by M. A. R.Habib and Bruce B.Lawrence. Liveright Publishing / W. W. Norton, 2024, 600 pp. ISBN : 978‐0‐87140499‐2.	0
Tafsīr or Taʾwīl? The Shaykhī Contribution to the Qurʾānīc Tradition of Nineteenth Century Iran	0
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Iran‐Africa Relations under Raisi: Salvaging Ties with the Continent	0
Analysis of handwritten heritage in the personal collection of theologian Momaqan Aliyev	0
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Iran's Domestic Politics One Year into the Raisi Presidency	0
The Instrumental Dimensions of Ethnic Politics in Iran	0
“Muslim Environmentalisms and Environmental Ethics: Theory and Practice for Rights and Justice”	0
The Duncan Black Macdonald Center at 50 years: “Constantly and creatively changing”	0
Islamic Traditionalists: “Against the Modern World”?	0
Ḥall ul‐fuṣūṣ and its Main Tenets: A Reading into Mīr Sayyid ʿAlī Hamadānī's Commentary on Fuṣūṣ ul‐ḥikam	0
Re‐Visiting the Meaning of ‘ẓann’ in the Qurʾān	0
The Ambiguity of Early Hadith Criticism: ʿAlī b. al‐Madīnī's (161–234/778–849) Evaluation of Hadith Transmitters	0
Studying Other Religions: Response to David Marshall	0
Opportunities and Challenges for American Muslims and American Muslim Institutions	0
The Higher Objectives of Islamic Theology: Toward a Theory of Maqāṣid al‐‘Aqīda By Mohammed GamalAbdelnour. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022, 192 pp., ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐764863‐6	0
Authority and the Geographies of U.S. Muslim Economies	0
The Duncan Black Macdonald Center commemorates its 50th anniversary	0
Reframing How We Behold the Muslim American Landscape: Looking Elsewhere and In‐Between	0
Christian‐Muslim Relations Today: Some Reflections	0
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Ghafla in Ghazālī's Scale of Action Meaningful Word or Device of Argument?	0
The Disaffected Wife: Reinterpreting Nushūz , Authority, and Punishment in Qurʾān 4:34	0
Iran's Foreign Relations under President Raisi	0
Sharing Baraka in an Unexpected Place: The Emergence of Ziyāra Culture Among Sufi and ‘Alawi Muslims in Argentina¹	0
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Majlis Taklim and The Path Of Women's Islamization In Indonesia	0
Neighbors: Christians and Muslims Building Community By Deanna FerreeWomack. Westminster John Knox Press, 2020, 192 pp., (paperback), ISBN 978‐0‐664‐26617‐2	0
Between Development, Growth, and Survival: Iran's Economic Priorities before and under President Raisi	0

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Al‐Azhar and the Salafis in Egypt: Contestation of two traditions	0
Thinking About Constructive Muslim Theology	0
Selected examples of Muslim loyalism in the Balkans toward Christian states: The case of Bosnia‐Herzegovina and Bulgaria 1878–1914	0
Anglo‐Muhammadan Uṣūl al‐Fiqh?: The Development of Colonial Legal Theory in British India	0
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Where in the Torah and Gospel Is the Promise of Qur’an 9:111 Found?	0
Qaddafi's Hidden History? The Libyan World Islamic Call Society's Editions and Translations of the Qur'an	0
Could Sufism Have Been a Means of Spreading Ibn Taymiyya's Thought in the Ottoman Empire?	0
The Problem of Early Islamic Diversity in Anatolia: Rethinking Dervish Piety Through Pantheistic Ideas	0
Ebrahim Raisi's Domestic Policy: Conservative, Pragmatic or Paralyzed?	0
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On Islam is a Foreign Country	0
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Sanctuary of A Thousand Adventures: Selimiye in The Besieged, Occupied, And Liberated Edirne	0
Two Nativity Stories: The Example of Jesus And Muhammad in Literary Texts	0
Barriers to Interfaith Dialogue: The Case of Islamic Scholars in Bangladesh	0
Layers of Authority in Shāh Walī Allāh's Persian Interlinear Qur’ān Translation	0
Iran and Her Ethicists: A Critical Perspective	0
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Constructive Muslim Theology as Disruption, Invitation, and Ethical Intervention	0
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Structural Challenges in Constructive Muslim Thought on Gender and Sexuality	0
Navigating Murky Waters: Iranian‐Gulf Relations a Year into Raisi's Presidency	0
The Islamic Mary: Maryam through the Centuries by YounusMirza. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2025, 177 pp. ISBN : 978‐1‐5064‐8245‐3	0
The Prophet's sandals and image‐relics: Tracing a symbol	0
The Prophetic in Constructive Muslim Theology: Creativity, Epistemic Virtues, and Vices¹	0
What Makes Islam Belong to a Place? (Un)Mapping Geographies of Religious and (Trans)National Belonging	0
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19^th Century Polemic at Shahjahanpur: Muḥammad Qāsim Nānawtawī's Philosophy of Khilāfat‐Allāh and his Response to the Critics of Islam in regard to Kaʿbah	0
The Nothing That Speaks: Mystical Negation, Vernacular Politics and the Shruks of Nund Rishi	0
Strange Things Have Happened	0