Selected Publications

Forthcoming 2008 Peer-reviewed Journal Article titled “Reading the Qur’an in Bangladesh: Discourses of Belief among Islamic Activist Women.” Modern Asian Studies, Special Issue on “Islamic Reformist Movements in South Asia,” edited by Filippo and Caroline Osella.

Forthcoming 2008 Book Chapter titled “Qur’anic Lessons in a Women’s Islamic Activist Organization in Bangladesh,” in Islam in Asia in Practice, edited by Barbara D. Metcalf, Princeton University Press..

Forthcoming 2007 Review article titled “Women, Preaching, and Religious Leadership: South Asia,” in Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volume 5, ed. Suad Joseph, Leiden: Brill.

2006 Review article titled “Women, Gender, and Mosques: South Asia,” in Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volume 4, ed. Suad Joseph, Leiden: Brill.

2003 Book Chapter titled “From Piety to Romance: Islam-oriented Texts in Bangladesh”, in New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere, edited by Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson, Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press.