Jalal, Ayesha. “An Uncertain Trajectory: Islam’s Contemporary Globalization, 1971-1979.” In The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective, edited by Niall Ferguson, Charles Maier, Erez Manela, and Daniel Sargent. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2010.
Jalal, Ayesha. The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985; various editions.
Jalal, Ayesha. The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.
Jalal, Ayesha. “Does Democracy have a Future in Pakistan?” Journal of Democracy, January 2024.
Jalal, Ayesha. The Pity of Partition: Manto’s Life, Times and Work Across the India Pakistan Divide. The Lawrence Stone Lectures April 2011. Princeton University Press, 2013.
Jalal, Ayesha. “Inside Pakistan’s Flawed Elections.” Journal of Democracy, February 2024.
Jalal, Ayesha. Manto. Joint editor with Nusrat Jalal for this bilingual (Urdu and English) commemorative volume on Saadat Hasan Manto’s birth centenary. Lahore: Sang-e-Meel Publications, 2012. [Urdu]
Bose, Sugata, and Ayesha Jalal. “The Indian Emergency in Historical Perspective.” In When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day, edited by Archon Fung et al. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Jalal, Ayesha. The Oxford Companion to Pakistani History, editor. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Jalal, Ayesha. “The Colonial Legacies of Authoritarianism in South Asia.” The Diplomat, August 2023.
Jalal, Ayesha. Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008; pb.2010.
Jalal, Ayesha. “The Paradigmatic Partition? The Pakistan Demand Revisited.” In The Breakup of India and Palestine: The Causes and Legacies of Partition, edited by Victor Matthew Kattan and Amit Ranjan. England: Manchester University Press, 2023.
Jalal, Ayesha. Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam since c.1850s. London and New York: Routledge, 2000; Delhi: Oxford University Press and Lahore: Sang-e-Meel, 2001.
Jalal, Ayesha. “Muslim Universalist Aspirations: Intimacies between the Indus-Gangetic Plain and the Indian.” In Oceanic Islam: Muslim Universalism and European Colonialism. Edited by Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal. London: Bloomsbury 2020.
Bose, Sugata, and Ayesha Jalal, eds. Nationalism, Democracy and Development: State and Politics in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Jalal, Ayesha. “Unbounded Vision.” Shahzia Sikander’s “Parallax”. Tufts Art Gallery: Tufts Art Gallery (2018)
Jalal, Ayesha. “Exploding Communalism: The Politics of Muslim Identity in South Asia.” In Nationalism, Democracy and Development: State and Politics in India, edited by Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal, 76–103. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Jalal, Ayesha. Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: a Comparative and Historical Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995; Indian edition by Foundation Books, 1995; Pakistani edition by Sang-e-Meel, 1995.
Bose, Sugata, and Ayesha Jalal, eds. Freedom’s Open Wound: Kashmir and the Future of South Asia. London: Routledge, 2020.
Jalal, Ayesha. The State of Martial Rule: the Origins of Pakistan’s Political Economy of Defence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990; Lahore: Vanguard Press, 1991; New Delhi: Foundation Books, 1992.