- Mirjam Künkler, “Lawyers in the Muslim World: Between Social Transformation, Judicial Control, and Feminisation” in Rick Abel, Ole Hammerslev, Hillary Sommerlad, Ulrike Schultz (eds.) Lawyers in 21st-Century Societies: Comparisons and Theories. Oxford: Hart, 2022, pp. 73-97. Also available at SSRN.
- Mirjam Künkler and David S. Law. “Islamic Constitutionalism: Iran” in David S. Law (ed.) Constitutionalism in Context, Cambridge University Press, 2022, pp. 449-473.
- Scott Williamson, Kadir Yildirim, Sharan Grewal, Mirjam Künkler. “Preaching Politics: How Politicization Undermines Religious Authority in the Middle East” in British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, 28 July 2022, pp. 1-20.
- Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein. “Introduction to Book Review Symposium: Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde: Scholar of Law, Religion, and Democracy” in Journal of Law and Religion, Cambridge University Press, Vol. 37 (3), 2022, pp. 501-507.
- Mirjam Künkler, “Revising Shari‘a in the Light of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” in Mohsen Kadivar: Haqq al-Nas: Human Rights and Reformist Islam, Edinburgh University Press, 2021, ix-xxx.
- Mirjam Künkler, “Forgotten Histories of Female Religious Authority in Islam” in Mirjam Künkler and Devin Stewart (eds.): Female Religious Authority in Shi’i Islam: Past and Present. Edinburgh University Press, 2021, pp. 18-46.
- Shylashri Shankar, John Madeley, and Mirjam Künkler. Introduction to Book Symposium on ‘A Secular Age beyond the West: Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa’ in Cambridge Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 36 (2), 2021, 278-282.
- Mirjam Künkler and Devin Stewart, “Introduction: The Past and Present of Female Religious Authority in Shi’i Islam” in Mirjam Künkler and Devin Stewart (eds.): Female Religious Authority in Shi’i Islam: Past and Present. Edinburgh University Press, 2021, pp. 1-17.
- Mirjam Künkler, “Mehrzad Boroujerdi and Kourosh Rahimkhani, Post-Revolutionary Iran: A Handbook, Syracuse University Press. A Review”, in Iranian Studies, Vol. 53 (3), 2020, 677-678.
- Mirjam Künkler, “A Clash of Constitutional Cultures: The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran, its Origins and its Evolution”, in Jan-Christoph Suntrup and Werner Gephart (eds.), Dynamics of Constitutional Cultures, Klostermann, 2020, 151-184.
- Mirjam Künkler, “Freedom in Religion, Freedom in the State: Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde on Religion, Law, and Democracy”, in Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein (eds.), Religion, Law, and Democracy. Selected Writings by Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Oxford University Press, 2020, 1-45.
- Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein, “Die Rezeption Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenfördes in international vergleichender Perspektive,” in Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein (eds.): Die Rezeption der Werke Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenfördes in international vergleichender Perspektive, Beihefte zu »Der Staat«, Band 24, Duncker & Humblot, 2020, 9-30.
- Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein, “Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde on Law, Religion, and Democratic Models of Secularism,” in Anupama Roy and Michael Becker (eds.), Dimensions of Constitutional Democracy: India and Germany, Springer 2020, 67-90.
- Mirjam Künkler, “The Bureaucratization of Religious Education in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” in Arif A. Jamal, Jaclyn L. Neo, and Daniel Goh (eds.): Regulating Religion in Asia: Norms, Modes, and Challenges, Cambridge University Press, 2019, 187-206.
- Mirjam Künkler, David Martin in Memoriam (1929–2019), Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 58 (4) 2019, 905-912.
- Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein: “Das Verhältnis von Recht, Religion und Politik im politischen Denken Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenfördes,” in: Andreas Anter and Verena Frick (eds.): Politik, Recht und Religion, Verlag Mohr Siebeck, 2019, 137-155.
- Mirjam Künkler, “The Bureaucratization of Religion in Southeast Asia: Expanding or Restricting Religious Freedom?” Symposium Introduction, Journal of Law and Religion 33, no. 2 (2018): 192–196.
- Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein, “Carl Schmitt in Ernst‐Wolfgang Böckenförde’s work: Carrying Weimar constitutional theory into the Bonn Republic,” Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, Vol. 25 (2), 2018, 225-241.
- Mirjam Künkler, “Law, Legitimacy and Equality: The Bureaucratization of Religion and Conditions of Belief in Indonesia” in Mirjam Künkler, John Madeley, Shylashri Shankar (eds.): A Secular Age Beyond the West. Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 107-127.
- Mirjam Künkler and John Madeley, “Conclusions: The Continued Prevalence of the ‘Marker State’” in Mirjam Künkler, John Madeley, Shylashri Shankar (eds.): A Secular Age Beyond the West. Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 342-384.
- Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein, “Statism, Secularism, Liberalism: Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde beyond German Law,” German Law Journal, Vol. 19 (2), 2018, 137-160.
- Mirjam Künkler and John Madeley, “A Quantitative View on the Incidence of Taylor’s Three Secularities in the eleven Country Studies” in Mirjam Künkler, John Madeley and Shylashri Shankar (eds.): A Secular Age Beyond the West. Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Cambridge University Press, 2018, 396-412.
- Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein, “Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde: Inner-Catholic Critic and Advocate of Open Neutrality,” Oxford Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 7 (1), 2018, 1-12.
- Mirjam Künkler and Shylashri Shankar, “Introduction: A Secular Age beyond the West” in Mirjam Künkler, John Madeley, Shylashri Shankar (eds.): A Secular Age Beyond the West. Religion, Law and the State in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa. Cambridge University Press, 2018, 1-32.
- Mirjam Künkler, “Rule of Law or Rule by Law? Iran’s Bar Association as a pawn in Islamic-republican contestations,” in Silvia Tellenbach and Thoralf Hanstein (eds.), Beiträge zum Islamischen Recht XII. Reihe: Leipziger Beiträge zur Orientforschung, 2017, 133-153.
- Morgan Clarke and Mirjam Künkler, “De-centring Shiʿi Islam,” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, published online October 2017, Vol. 45 (1), 1-17.
- Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein, “Staat, Recht und Verfassung. Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenfördes politisches und verfassungstheoretisches Denken im Kontext” in Jahrbuch des Öffentlichen Rechts, Bd. 65, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2017, 573-610.
- Mirjam Künkler, “Constitutionalism, Islamic Law, and Religious Freedom in post-independence Indonesia” in Asli Bali and Hanna Lerner (eds.) Constitution Writing, Religion and Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 2017, 179-206.
- Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein, “State, Law, and Constitution: Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde’s Political and Legal Thought in Context” in Mirjam Künkler and Tine Stein (eds.): Constitutional and Political Theory. Selected Writings by Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde. Oxford University Press, 2017, 1-35.
- David Kloos and Mirjam Künkler, “Studying Female Islamic Authority: From Top-Down to Bottom-Up Modes of Certification,” in Asian Studies Review, 40 (4), December 2016, 479-490. Introduction to special issue guest-edited by the authors. (also available on researchgate).
- Mirjam Künkler and Hanna Lerner, “A Private Matter? Religious Education and Democracy in Indonesia and Israel,” British Journal of Religious Education, 38 (3), September 2016, 279-307 (available also on ssrn).
- Mirjam Künkler and Yüksel Sezgin, “The Unification of Law and the Post-colonial State. Limits of State Monism in India and Indonesia,” American Behavioral Scientist, 60(8), July 2016, 987-1012 (available also on ssrn).
- Mirjam Künkler, Hanna Lerner and Shylashri Shankar, “Constitutionalism in Rough Seas,” introduction to special issue, American Behavioral Scientist, 60(8), July 2016, 911-918.
- Mirjam Künkler and John Madeley, “A Secular Age beyond the West: Forms of Differentiation in and around the Religious Field” in Soft Power, Vol. 1 (2), 2014, 41-62.
- Mirjam Künkler, “Forgotten Histories of and New State Initiatives for Female Religious Authority in Islam.” Accepted by the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society.
- Yüksel Sezgin and Mirjam Künkler, “Regulation of Religion and the Religious: The Politics of Judicialization and Bureaucratization in India and Indonesia“, Comparative Studies of Society and History, 2014, Vol. 56(2): 448-478 (also available on ssrn).
- Mirjam Künkler, “How Pluralist Democracy Became the Consensual Discourse Among Secular and Nonsecular Muslims in Indonesia.” in Mirjam Künkler and Alfred Stepan (eds.): Democracy and Islam in Indonesia, Columbia University Press, 2013, 53-72.
- Mirjam Künkler and Alfred Stepan, “Indonesian Democracy in Theoretical Perspective” in Mirjam Künkler and Alfred Stepan (eds.): Democracy and Islam in Indonesia, Columbia University Press, 2013, 3-23.
- Mirjam Künkler and Yüksel Sezgin, “Diversity in Democracy: Religious Privilege in largely Secular Legal Systems. Introduction,” Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 28, 2, 2013, 337-340. Introduction to symposium guest-edited by the authors.
- Manfred Brocker and Mirjam Künkler, “Religious parties: Revisiting the inclusion-moderation hypothesis – Introduction,” Party Politics, 19 (March 2013), 171-186. Introduction to special issue guest-edited by the authors.
- Mirjam Künkler, “The Special Court of the Clergy (dādgāh-e vīzhe-ye rūḥānīyat) and the Repression of Dissident Clergy in Iran,” in The Rule of Law, Islam, and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran, edited by Said Arjomand and Nathan Brown, SUNY Press, 2013, pp. 57-100.
- Mirjam Künkler, “Muftiyah”, “Nosrat Amin”, and “Zohreh Sefati” Entries in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, Oxford University Press, 2013.
- Mirjam Künkler, “Religion-State Relations and Democracy in Egypt and Tunisia: Models from the Democratizing Muslim World — and their Limits,” Swiss Political Science Review, 18: 2012, pp. 114-119 (also available on researchgate).
- Mirjam Künkler, “Electoral Victory, Political Defeat: The Elimination of Zones of Autonomy in Khatami’s Iran,” in Problems Confronting Contemporary Democracies, edited by Douglas Chalmers and Scott Mainwaring, Notre Dame University Press, 2012, 166-202.
- Mirjam Künkler, “Democracy,” Entry in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, Princeton University Press, 2012, pp. 128-130.
- Mirjam Künkler, “Theocracy,” Entry in the Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, Princeton University Press, 2012, pp. 547-549.
- Mirjam Künkler and Roja Fazaeli, “The life of two mujtahidahs: Female Religious Authority in 20th century Iran” in Women, Leadership and Mosques: Contemporary Islamic Authority, edited by Masooda Bano and Hilary Kalmbach, Brill Publishers, 2011, pp. 127-160.
- Mirjam Künkler, “Irão: uma juristocracia autoritária?” in Relações Internacionais, IPRI, Lisbon. Vol. 26, July 2010, pp. 69-82.
- Mirjam Künkler, Book Review of Asef Bayat: “Making Islam Democratic. Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn,” in the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 42, 4, 2010, pp. 722-723.
- Mirjam Künkler and Julia Leininger, “Religion and Politics” in The Encyclopedia of Political Science, ed. by George Thomas Kurian, Washington, D.C.: CQ Publishers, 2010, pp. 1450-1453.
- Mirjam Künkler and Julia Leininger, “The Multi-faceted Role of Religious Actors in Democratization Processes: Empirical Evidence from Five Young Democracies” in Democratization, Vol. 16 (6), Dec 2009, pp. 1058-1092.
- Mirjam Künkler and Julia Leininger, “Säkularisierung” in Dieter Nohlen and Rainer-Olaf Schultze (eds.): Lexikon der Politikwissenschaft, Theorien, Methoden, Begriffe, 3. Auflage. Beck Verlag, 2009.
- Mirjam Künkler, “A New Standard in the Studies of Southeast Asian Islam,” Review of Greg Fealy and Virginia Hooker (eds): Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia — A Contemporary Sourcebook. Singapore: ISEAS, 2006; in Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs, 2008, 1, pp. 111-113.
- Mirjam Künkler, “Zum Verhältnis Staat-Religion und der Rolle islamischer Intellektueller in der indonesischen Reformasi” in Stephanie Garling and Simon W. Fuchs (eds.): Religion in Diktatur und Demokratie — Zur Bedeutung von religiösen Werten, Praktiken und Institutionen in politischen Transformationsprozessen. Wuppertal: Villigster Profile, 2008, pp. 84-102.
- Mirjam Künkler and Michael Meyer-Resende, A Missing Link: Why Europe Should Talk About Religion when Promoting Democracy Abroad, Discussion Paper No.1, June 2007. Democracy Reporting International, Berlin.
- Mirjam Künkler, “After The Revolution is Before The Revolution,” Review of Farhad Nomani and Sohrab Behdad: Class and Labor in Iran: Did the Revolution Matter? in Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 60, 2, 2007, pp. 213-217.
- Alfred Stepan and Mirjam Künkler, “An Interview With Amien Rais,” Journal of International Affairs, Special Issue on Religion and Statecraft, Vol. 61, 1, 2007, pp. 205-216.
- Mirjam Künkler, “In the language of Islamic sacred texts: the tripartite struggle for advocating women’s rights in Iran,” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 24, 2, 2004, pp. 375-392.
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