| Islamic mysticism: A short history A Knysh Brill, 2010 | 608 | 2010 |
| Ibn'Arabi in the later Islamic tradition: The making of a polemical image in medieval Islam AD Knysh Suny Press, 1999 | 456 | 1999 |
| Sufism: A new history of Islamic mysticism A Knysh Princeton University Press, 2019 | 190 | 2019 |
| Мусульманский мистицизм АД Кныш Диля, 2004 | 140 | 2004 |
| 'Orthodoxy'and'heresy'in medieval Islam: An essay in reassessment. A Knysh The Muslim World 83 (1), 48-67, 1993 | 126 | 1993 |
| A clear and present danger:" Wahhabism" as a rhetorical foil A Knysh Die Welt des Islams 44 (1), 3-26, 2004 | 108 | 2004 |
| " Irfan" Revisited: Khomeini and the Legacy of Islamic Mystical Philosophy A Knysh Middle East Journal 46 (4), 631-653, 1992 | 93 | 1992 |
| Al-Qushayri’s epistle on sufism AQ Al-Qushayri Reading (UK): Garnet, 2007 | 88 | 2007 |
| Contextualizing the Salafi–Sufi conflict (from the northern Caucasus to Hadramawt) A Knysh Middle Eastern Studies 43 (4), 503-530, 2007 | 87 | 2007 |
| Dreams and visions in Islamic societies Ö Felek, AD Knysh State University of New York Press, 2012 | 85 | 2012 |
| Sufism as an explanatory paradigm: the issue of the motivations of Sufi resistance movements in Western and Russian scholarship A Knysh Die Welt des Islams 42 (2), 139-173, 2002 | 77 | 2002 |
| Islam in historical perspective A Knysh Routledge, 2016 | 73 | 2016 |
| The" Tariqa" on a Landcruiser: The Resurgence of Sufism in Yemen A Knysh The Middle East Journal, 399-414, 2001 | 73 | 2001 |
| Historiography of Sufi studies in the West A Knysh A Companion to the History of the Middle East, 106-131, 2005 | 51 | 2005 |
| Al-Qushayri's Epistle on Sufism: Al-Risala Al-qushayriyya Fi'ukn Ak-tasawwuf;; Translated by Alexander D. Knysh; Reviewed by Muhammad Eissa ʻAbd al-Karīm ibn Hawāzin Qushayrī, AD Knysh, MS Eissa Garnet Publishing, 2007 | 48 | 2007 |
| Islam and Arabic as the Rhetoric of Insurgency: the Case of the Caucasus Emirate A Knysh Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 35 (4), 315-337, 2012 | 38 | 2012 |
| The cult of saints in Hadramawt: an overview A Knysh New Arabian Studies 1, 137-52, 1993 | 38 | 1993 |
| Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī (d. 1101/1690), an Apologist for Waḥdat al-Wujūd A Knysh Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 5 (1), 39-47, 1995 | 32 | 1995 |
| The Sāda in History: A critical essay on Ḥaḍramī historiography A Knysh Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 9 (2), 215-222, 1999 | 29 | 1999 |
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