1. “Some reflections on the Islamization of Knowledge,” Al-Shajarah 28. 2 (2023): 407-423 [co-author: Arfah Abd. Majid] (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

2. “Hamka’s Reflections on Ignorance,” Critical Muslim 44 (2022): 84-93.

3. “Rehabilitating the Shari’a: Ahmad Ibrahim and Reformation of Laws in Southeast Asia,” The Muslim World 112, 4 (2022): 387-403 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

4. “Osman Bakar and Epistemological Renewal in the Muslim World,” Al-Shajarah: ISTAC Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilisation 27, 1 (2022): 1-27 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

5. “Embodying Adaptive Boundaries: Singapore Muslim Women Immigrants in Australia,” Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies 6, 1: (2022): 29-55 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

6. “Psycho-Pious Motivations and Muslim Migration to the West: The Case of Singaporean Malay-Muslims in Melbourne, Australia,” Akademika 92, 1 (2022): 209-220 [co-author Abbas Khan]. (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

7. “Reshaping Their Mental Lifeworld: Malay-Muslim Immigrants in Australia in the Age of Islamophobia,” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 42, 1 (2022): 41-55 [co-author Abbas Khan]. (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

8. “Malay Migrants Migration in Australia: A Longue Durée Perspective, 17th -21st Centuries,” New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 23, 1 (2021): 101-119 [co-author Abbas Khan].

9. “Bringing Rationality Back In: Harun Nasution and the Burden of Muslim Thought in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia,” Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies (2022): 6, 1 (2021): 29-55 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

10. “Islam as Therapy: Zakiah Daradjat and the uses of religious-oriented psychology,” Indonesia and the Malay World 49, 143 (2021): 106-121. (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

11. “A Traveling Model: The Mythicization and Mobilization of Malcolm X in the Malay World,”  Swedish Theological Quarterly (STK) [Lund University, Sweden], 96, 1 (2020): 69-83.

12. “Deformations of the Secular: A Rejectionist Conception and Critique of Secularism”, Journal of the History of Ideas [University of Pennsylvania Press] 79, 2 (2019), 643-663 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

13. “Not Just a House to Honour God”: Mosques in the Malay World as Cosmopolitan Spaces,” Global Journal Al-Tsaqafah 8, 1 (2018): 43-55 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

14. “In Defense of Guided Reason: Hamka and the Reconstruction of Southeast Asian Islam”, History of Religions [Chicago University Press] 57, 1 (2017), 107-128 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

15. “Reconceptualizing Islam in Southeast Asia: Cosmopolitan Public Intellectuals and their Publics Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context” [Yonsei University Press] 10, 2 (2017): 45-64 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

16. “Recasting Gendered Paradigms: An Indonesian Cleric and Muslim Women in the Malay World”, Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations [Taylor and Francis] 27, 2, (2016), pp. 175-193 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

17. “Reorienting Sufism: Hamka and Islamic Mysticism in the Malay World”, Indonesia [Cornell University Press] 101, 1 (2016), pp. 1-18 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

18. “Political Memoirs as Contrapuntal Narratives: Said Zahari’s Dark Clouds at Dawn“, Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies [Taylor and Francis] 18, 4 (2016), pp. 512- 525 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

19. “Demarginalizing the Sharia: Muslim Activists and Legal Reforms in Malaysia”, ReOrient: Journal of Critical Muslim Studies [Pluto Press] 1, 2 (2016), pp. 127-146 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

20. “Writing Reformist Histories: A Cleric as an Outsider-History Maker”, The Public Historian [University of California Press] 37, 3 (2015), pp. 10-28.

21. “Coffeeshops in Colonial Singapore: Domains of Contentious Publics”, History Workshop Journal [Oxford University Press] 78, 1 (2014), pp. 65-85 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

22. “Transcending Orientalism: Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas and the History of Islam in the Malay World”, Tafhim: Journal of Islam and the Contemporary World [Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia] 6, 1, (2014), pp. 1-21.

23. “Against Multiple Hegemonies: Radical Malay Women in Colonial Malaya”, Journal of Social History [Oxford University Press] 46, 1 (2013), pp. 153-175 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

24. “The Prison and the Anti-colonialist in British Malaya”, Journal of Historical Sociology [Wiley-Blackwell] 25, 3 (2012), pp. 386-412 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

25. “Mediating and Consuming the Memories of Violence in the Philippines”, Critical Asian Studies [Routledge] 44, 1 (2012), pp. 227-250. [co-author Rommel Curaming] (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

26. “Social Memory and State-Civil Society Relations in the Philippines: Forgetting and Remembering Jabidah ‘Massacre’”, Time and Society [Sage] 21, 1 (2012), pp. 89-103 [co-author Rommel Curaming] (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

27. “The Other Muhammadiyah Movement: Singapore, 1958-2008”, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies [Cambridge University Press] 42, 2 (2011), pp. 281-302 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

28. “Micro-history and the Study of Minorities”, Social History [Taylor and Francis] 35, 1 (2011), pp. 22-35 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

29. “A Theory of Colonialism in the Malay World”, Postcolonial Studies [Taylor and Francis] 14, 1 (2011), pp. 7-21 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

30. “Ethnic Resurgence, Minority Communities and State Policies in a Network Society”, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power [Routledge] 16, 2 (2010), pp. 304-326 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

31. “Rethinking Riots in Colonial Southeast East Asia”, South East Asia Research [Sage] 18,1 (2010), pp. 105–131 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

32. “British Discourses and Malay Identity in Colonial Singapore”, Indonesia and the Malay World [Taylor and Francis] 37, 107 (2009), pp. 1-22 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

33. “The Role of Hadramis in Post-World War Two Singapore – A Reinterpretation”, Immigrants and Minorities [Taylor and Francis] 25, 2 (2007), pp. 163-183 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

34. “Making Sense of an Evolving Identity: A Survey of Studies on Identity and Identity Formation of Malays in Singapore”, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (JMMA) [Taylor and Francis] 26, 3 (2006), pp. 371-382 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

35. “Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles’ Discourse on the Malay World – A Revisionist Perspective”, Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asian Studies [Institute of Southeast Asian Studies] 20, 1 (2005), pp. 1-22 (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

36. “Estranged from the Ideal Past – Historical Evolution of Madrasahs in Singapore”, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs (JMMA) [Taylor and Francis] 25, 2 (2005), pp. 249-260. [co-author Dayang Istiaisyah Hussin] (ISI/Scopus Indexed).

37. “Films as Social History – P. Ramlee’s ‘Seniman Bujang Lapok’ and Malays in Singapore (1950s-60s)” Heritage Journal [Singapore History Museum] 2, 1 (2005), pp. 1-21.

38. “Edward Said and Southeast Asian Islam”, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies (Special Issue on “The Life and Legacy of Edward Said”) [Georgia Southern University] 11, 1-2 (2004), pp. 159-175.