Books
Die „Schule“ Ḥasan al-Bannās – Erziehung und Ideologiebildung bei der Muslimbruderschaft in der arabischen Welt, 1950-2013. Baden-Baden: Ergon, 2021.
The Coptic Question in the Mubarak Era. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Edited Books and Journal Issues
Special Issue „Modern Muslim Subjectivities“ (with Kirstine Sinclair), Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques 75 (2021), 4.
Articles in Reference Books
„Copts 1800-present, “ EI3 (forthcoming).
Journal Articles (peer-reviewed)
“Between Preaching and Judging: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Predicament of takfīr (1960s-1980s).” Islamic Law and Society (published online ahead of print 2023), https://doi.org/10.1163/15685195-bja10044
“Engineering the ‘Islamic personality’: Muslim Brotherhood education between theory and practice.” Asiatische Studien/Etudes asiatiques 75 (2021), 4.
“Arab Non-Believers and Freethinkers on YouTube: Re-Negotiating Intellectual and Social Boundaries.” Religions 12 (2021): 106. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12020106
“The Coptic Divorce Struggle in Contemporary Egypt.” Social Compass 66 (2019), 3, p. 333-351, https://doi.org/10.1177/0037768619856295 .
“Sufism and the Muslim Brotherhood. Ḥasan al-Bannā’s wird and the transformation of Sufi traditions in modern Islamic activism.” Oriente Moderno 99 (2019), p. 280-305.
“Press Liberalization, the New Media, and the ‘Coptic Question’. Muslim-Coptic Relations in Egypt in a Changing Media Landscape.” Middle Eastern Studies 46 (2010), 1, p. 131-150.
“Between Ideology and Pragmatism: Fatḥī Yakan’s Theory of Islamic Activism.” Die Welt des Islams 47 (2007), 3-4, p. 376-402.
Other Articles
“The Egyptian Struggle for Citizenship Rights and the Coptic Question. A Critical Inquiry into the Thinking of the Egyptian Intellectual Samīr Murquṣ.” In Catalin-Stefan Popa (Hg.), From Polarization to Cohabitation in the New Middle East, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2020, p. 41-54.
„The Copts in the January Revolution of 2011.“ In Nelly van Doorn-Harder (Hg.), Copts in Context, Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2017, p. 21-33.
“Medien und Minderheiten in arabischen Ländern” (mit Andrea Fischer-Tahir und Kristin Pfeifer). In Carola Richter und Asiem El Difraoui (Hg.), Arabische Medien, Konstanz und München: UVK, 2015, p. 99-116.
„Jewish, Christian and Muslim Heritage in Modern Egypt.“ In Cäcilia Fluck, Gisela Helmecke und Elizabeth R. O’Connell (Hg.), Egypt: faith after the pharaohs. London: The British Museum, 2015, p. 258-261.
„Wie forscht und lehrt man »international«? Das Beispiel der Orientalistik an der CAU.“ In Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Hg.), 350 Jahre Wirken in Stadt, Land und Welt. Kiel: Wachholtz, Murmann Publishers, 2015, p. 1005-1013.
“Muslims and Christians in Egyptian State Formation: A New Beginning in 2011?” In Kenneth Christie und Mohammad Masad (Hg.), State Formation and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, p. 139-157.
„Kreuz und Halbmond wieder vereint? Revolutionäre Solidarität und religiöse Spannungen während und nach der ägyptischen Revolution.“ In Holger Albrecht und Thomas Demmelhuber (Hg.), Revolution und Regimewandel in Ägypten, Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2013, p. 257-280.
“La question copte entre crispations confessionnelles et tentatives de citoyenneté.” In Iman Farag (Hg.), Chroniques Égyptiennes 2008, Kairo: CEDEJ 2010, p. 101-122.
“Fatḥī Yakan – Islamistischer Intellektueller und Aktivist, Gründungsvater des sunnitischen Islamismus im Libanon.” Orient IV/2007, p. 64-71.
Fatḥī Yakans Theorie des islamischen Aktivismus (Master Thesis, FU Berlin, 2006).
Sebastian Elsässer 