A History of Jeddah. The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Cambridge University Press 2020, 404 S.

Besprechungen: Bruckmayr, Phillipp, DAVO-Nachrichten 54/55 (Dez. 2023), pp. 160-64; Reilly, Benjamin James, Project Muse, 2.6.2023; Schlicht, Alfred, Orientalische Literaturzeitung, 6.4.2023; Sebastian Prange, Journal of islamic Studies 33;3 (Sept. 2022), pp. 405-7;FAZ, 2.5.2020; al-ʿUkāz, 6.7.2020; Seema Alavi, "The Unique Gateway. A History of Jeddah", Urban History April-June 2020, S. 34; Middle East Monitor 05.11.2021; alwatan, 4.02.2021; Orient 62 2021, S. 68-71; zenith 15.04.2021; The American Historical Review 06.19.2021; Bustan: The Middle East Book Review 2021. 

Podcasts: New Books network, 10.8.2020, Tell me a history, 28.09.2020; غين - Gheyn, 06.10.2020.

Indian Ocean Migrants and State Formation in Hadhramaut. Leiden, Brill 2003, 589 S. (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia, 87).

Besprechungen: Nico J.G. Kaptein, Leiden University in: Asian Journal of Social Science, 35 (2007), 268-69; Asian Journal of Social Science, 35 (2007), 268-69; Sudanic Africa 14 (2003), 140-148; Chroniques Yéménites /11 (2003), 443f. , /Archiv orientální/73 (2005), 517-520, Jemen-Report 36, 2005, BSOAS 67;3 (2004), ArOr 73 (2005)

Imperialer Übergang und Dekolonisation: Das Beispiel Syrien. Kurseinheit des Grundkurses an der FernUniversität Hagen über das Moderne Asien. Hagen 1992, 94 S.

Geschichtsschreibung in Syrien 1920-1990: Zwischen Wissenschaft und Ideologie. Hamburg, Orient Institut 1991, 454 S. Besprechungen: npl, REMMM, ZdMG.

mit Jeanine Elif Daǧyeli und Claudia Ghrawi, Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds, Religion and Society in the Context of the Global, De Gruyter, Berlin 2021, https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110726534/html?lang=en.

mit Randa Aboubakr, Sarah Jurkiewicz, Hicham Ait-Mansour: Spaces of Participation. Dynamics of Social and Political Change in the Arab World, AUC Press Cairo 2021, https://aucpress.com/product/spaces-of-participation/.

mit André Chappatte und Nora Lafi: Understanding the City through its Margins, Abingdon, Routledge, 2018, 190 S. [2019: Neuauflage als Taschenbuch]

mit Nelida Fuccaro, Claudia Ghrawi, Nora Lafi: Urban Violence in the Middle East. Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State, Berghahn series Space & Place, Vol 14, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015, 334 S.

mit Nora Lafi: Urban Governance Under the Ottomans. Between cosmopolitanism and conflict, SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East, Abingdon, Routledge, 2014, 238 S.

mit William Clarence-Smith: al-Shattat al-hadhrami. Tujjar, 'ulama', wa-rijal dawla. Hadharim fi almuhit-al-hindi 1750-1960, Tarim li-l-dirasat wa-l-nashr, Übersetzung: 'Abdallah 'Abd al-Rahman al-Kaf., 2014 (Übersetzung: Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s. Leiden, Brill 1997), o.O., o.J.

mit Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi, Florian Riedler: The City in the Ottoman Empire. Migration and the making of urban modernity, SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East, London: Routledge, 2011, 272 pp. Rezensionen: hsozkult, 25.10.2012 (http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensionen/2012-4-075)

Cities as Frameworks of Affiliation: Some Considerations. In: Omran Issue 51, Vol. 13, Doha, 2025, 7-24.

االمدن إطارًا لالنتماء: بعض المالحظات (Cities as Frameworks of Affiliation: Some Considerations) In: عمرانOmran Issue 51, Vol. 13, Doha, 2025, 7-24, DOI: https://doi.org/10.31430/GYKH6459.

Die Arabische Halbinsel, der Jemen: Die Wandlung charismatischer Herrschaft zu Staaten im imperialen Kontext. In: Kaplony, Andreas (ed.), Geschichte der Arabischen Welt, C.H.Beck, 2024, 489-507.

Of Jewels, Eyeglasses, and Books: Muḥibb al-Dīn al-Khaṭīb as Booktrader and Publisher in the Early 1920s. In: Föllmer, Katja; Franke, Lisa Maria & Ben Amara, Ramzi (ed.), Rethinking the Anthropology of Islam, Dynamics of Change in Muslim Societies, de Gruyter, Berlin, 2024, 257-272.

Der Friedhof für Nichtmuslime in Dschidda, Saudi-Arabien, in: Moderne Stadtgeschichte (MSG), Bd. 1, 2022, 39-55.

Urban Life in Late Ottoman, Hashemite and Early Saudi Jeddah, as Documented in the Photographs in the Snouck Hurgronje Collection in Leiden. In: Léon Buskens, Jan Just Witkam, Annemarie van Sandwijk, Scholarship in Action. Essays on the Life and Work of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936), The History of Oriental Studies 12, Brill, Leiden, 2022, 139-167.

The Projection of Saudi Arabian Influence to West Africa, in: Abdoulaye Sounaye, André Chappatte (Hg.), Islam and Muslim Life in West Africa, Practices, Trajectories and Influences, de Gruyter, Berlin, 2022, S. 173-205.

Thinking of the City through Film and Cinema: Roll’em, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Special Issue: Urban Cultures in the Gulf from a Historical Media Perspective, 15, 2022, 241-258.

mit Noël van den Heuvel: Religion and pandemic. State, Islam and society in Saudi Arabia and Iran during the coronavirus crisis 1, in: Zeina Hobaika, Lena-Maria Möller, Jan Claudius Völkel (Hg.), The MENA Region and COVID-19. Impact, Implications and Prospects,  Routledge, 2022, 107-127.

mit Daǧyeli, Jeanine, Ghrawi, Claudia: Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds, in:  Jeanine Elif Daǧyeli, Claudia Ghrawi, Ulrike  Freitag, (Hg.) Claiming and Making Muslim Worlds Religion and Society in the Context of the Global, de Gruyter, 2021, ZMO, Nr. 40, 1-28.

mit Noël van den Heuvel: Geschichte des Vorderen Orients und Nordafrikas an deutschen Einrichtungen - Entwicklungen und Trends, VHD Journal, Vol. 10, 2021, 27-30.mit Angelika Poferl, Heidemarie Winkel, Yael Kupferberg, Nahed Samour, Dorothea Sattler: Das Spannungsverhältnis von Feminismus, Säkularismus und Religion, deGruyter, Feministische Studien, Vol. 39, 2021,103-125.  ISSN: 2365-9920 Print ISSN: 0723-5186

mit Eva Geulen, Manfred Krifka: Aktuelle Perspektiven. In: GWZ (Hg.), 25 Jahre Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin, 2021.

Islam im städtischen Raum. In: Ludger Hagedorn; Patricia Löwe; Stadt und Religion: Wegzeichen zu einer postsäkularen Urbanität,  Herder, 2021, 170-186.

The Dihlīz of the Learned: Bayt Naṣīf as a Node in Reformist Muslim Circles (Mid 19th-Mid 20th Centuries), Onlinepublikation des King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, Nr. 12, November 2020. Arabische Version hier verfügbar.

mit Noël van den Heuvel: Religion und Pandemie. Staat, Religion und Gesellschaft in Saudi-Arabien und Iran in der Coronakrise, in Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 46; 3 (2020), 494-506.

Cosmopolitanism in a Global Perspective. The 2019 Annual Lecture. German Historical Institute, London, 2020, 24 S.

Reappropriating Urban Heritage. Jeddah’s Rejuvenation and Struggle Over its Past, in: Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (Hg.), Muslim Worlds – World of Islam? New Directions in Research 2017–2019, ZMO, Berlin, 2019, 66-70.

The History of the Hajj as Heritage: Asset or Burden to the Saudi State, in: Burkhard Schnepel, Tansen Sen (Hg.), Travelling Pasts. the Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Indian Ocean World, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2019, 62-78.

Die Erforschung muslimisch geprägter Lebens- und Erfahrungswelten, in: Steffen Wippel, Andrea Fischer-Tahir (Hg.), Jenseits etablierter Meta-Geographien. Der Nahe Osten und Nordafrika in transregionaler Perspektive, Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft 2018, 212-213.

State-Society Relations through the Lens of Urban Development, in: Ebru Boyar, Kate Fleet (Hg.), Middle Eastern and North African Societies in the Interwar Period,  Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018, 27-53.

mit A. Chappatte und Nora Lafi: The City and its Regulations: Unexpected Margins, in: André Chappatte, Ulrike Freitag, Nora Lafi (Hg.), Understanding the City through its Margins, Abingdon: Routledge 2018, 1-15.

A Twentieth-Century Merchant Network Centered on Jeddah: The Correspondence of Muḥammad b. Aḥmad Bin Ḥimd. In: Journal of Northeast African Studies 17;1 (2017), 101-130.

Scholarly Exchange and Trade: Muḥammad Ḥusayn Naṣīf and his Letters to Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, in: Michael Kemper, Ralf Elger (Hg.), The Piety of Learning. Islamic Studies in Honor of Stefan Reichmuth, Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2017, 292- 300.

Neuere Tendenzen der Restaurierung „authentischer arabischer Architektur“ am Beispiel Saudi Arabiens, in: Christoph Bernhardt, Martin Sabrow, Achim Saupe (Hg.), Gebaute Geschichte. Historische Authentizität im Stadtraum, Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2017, 182-205.

mit Philippe Pétriat und Martin Strohmeier: La Première Guerre mondiale dans la péninsule Arabique… en quête de ses sources, in: Arabian Humanities, Themenheft "Circulations dans la péninsule Arabique pendant la Première Guerre mondiale", No. 6, 2016, online 8. August 2016.  English version: World War I in the Arabian Peninsula… in Search of Sources.

Heinrich Freiherr von Maltzan’s “My Pilgrimage to Mecca”: A Critical Investigation. In: Umar Ryad (Hg.), The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire, Leiden Studies in Islam and Society vol. 5, 2016 [2017], Leiden, Boston: Brill, 142-154, DOI: 10.1163/9789004323353.

Urban life in late Ottoman, Hashemite and early Saudi Jeddah, as documented in the photographs in the Snouck Hurgronje collection in Leiden, ZMO Working Papers 16, 2016, 12 S.

Urban Space and Prestige: When Festivals Turned Violent in Jeddah, 1880s-1960s. In: Nelida Fuccaro (Hg.), Violence and the City in the Modern Middle East, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016, 61-74.

mit Nelida Fuccaro, Claudia Ghrawi, Fatemeh Masjedi: Introduction, in: Ulrike Freitag. Nelida Fuccaro, Claudia Ghrawi, Nora Lafi (Hg.), Urban Violence in the Middle East. Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State, Berghahn series Space & Place, Vol 14, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015, 1-25.

Symbolic Politics and Urban Violence in Late Ottoman Jeddah, in: Ulrike Freitag. Nelida Fuccaro, Claudia Ghrawi, Nora Lafi (Hg.), Urban Violence in the Middle East. Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State, Berghahn series Space & Place, Vol 14, New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2015, 111-138.

The Falah School in Jeddah: Civic Engagement for Future Generations?, in Jadaliyya, 6. Mai 2015, http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/21430/the-falah-school-in-jeddah_civic-engagement-for-fu

mit Nushin Atmaca: Innenpolitische und gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen, in: Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ) Saudi-Arabien, 64(46), 2014, 12-18.

Playing with Gender: The Carnival of al-Qays in Jeddah, in: Nazan Maksudyan (Hg.), Women and the City, Women in the City. A Gendered Perspective on Ottoman Urban History, New York, Oxford: Berghahn, 2014, 71-85.

mit Nora Lafi: Introduction: Cosmopolitanism and conflicts: Changes and challenges in Ottoman Urban Governance, in: Ulrike Freitag, Nora Lafi (Hg.), Urban Governance Under the Ottomans. Between Cosmopolitanism and Conflict, SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East, Abingdon Routledge, 2014, 1-17.

"'Cosmopolitanism' and 'Convivality'? Some Conceptual Considerations Concerning the late Ottoman Empire," European Journal of Cultural Studies 2014, http://ecs.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/11/29/1367549413510417.full.pdf+html

From Tajikistan to Yemen: Things seen and heard in Soqotra, Arabian Humanities 19 (online), 2024.

Hammams à Sanaa. Culture, Architecture, Histoire et Société, edited by Michel Tuchscherer and Nabil Boutros, Die Welt des Islams, 2023.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine as a contestation of the liberal script? - № 12: The Saudi reaction to the Ukraine war as indicator of shifting alliances, SCRIPTS, 2022.

Foreword to the Introduction to "Diaries of Prisoner Ahmad Suwaydan" Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Texts in Context, 2022.

Rez.: Saudi Arabia and Indonesian Networks: Migration, Education, and Islam by Sumanto Al Qurtuby, Oxford University Press, Journal of Islamic Studies, 2021.

Rez.: Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj By Michael Christopher Low. Oxford: Oxford Journal of Islamic Studies, 2021.

Rez.: Rosie Bsheer, Archive Wars. The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020 (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures). 416 pp..

Rez.: Madawi Al-Rasheed, Salman’s Legacy. The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia. London: Hurst & Company, 2018. In: Die Welt des Islams, Band 59,  Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2019, 120-123.

Jidda, in: Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas, Everett Rowson (Hg.): The Encyclopedia of Islam Three. Leiden/Boston: Brill,  2018, 118.

Foreword,in: Steffen Wippel, Katrin Bromber, Christian Steiner, Birgit Krawietz (Hg.), Under Construction. Logics of Urbanism in the Gulf Region, Farnham, Ashgate 2014, xxi-xxii.

Beyond Europe: New Perspectives on the Great War, in: Helmut Bley, Anorte Kremers (Hg.), The World during the First World War, Essen: Klartext, 2014, 23-25.

Rez.: David Aslanian, Sebouh, From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean. The Global Trade Networks of Armenian Merchants from New Julfa, von California World History Library 17, Berkeley, University of California Press 2011. In: geschichte.transnational, H-Soz-u-Kult, 2014.

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