| In the shadow of shari ‘ah: Islam, Islamic law, and democracy in Pakistan MJ Nelson Columbia University Press, 2011 | 107 | 2011 |
| Muslims, Markets, and the Meaning of a ““Good”” Education in Pakistan MJ Nelson Asian Survey 46 (5), 699-720, 2006 | 79 | 2006 |
| Dealing with difference: Religious education and the challenge of democracy in Pakistan MJ Nelson Modern Asian Studies 43 (3), 591-618, 2009 | 38 | 2009 |
| Pakistan in 2008: Moving beyond Musharraf MJ Nelson Asian Survey 49 (1), 16-27, 2009 | 31 | 2009 |
| Embracing the Ummah: Student Politics beyond State Power in Pakistan MJ Nelson Modern Asian Studies, 565-596, 2011 | 29 | 2011 |
| Is the rule of law an antidote for religious tension? The promise and peril of judicializing religious freedom B Schonthal, T Moustafa, M Nelson, S Shankar American Behavioral Scientist 60 (8), 966-986, 2016 | 23 | 2016 |
| Is the Rule of Law an Antidote for Religious Tension? The Promise and Peril of Judicializing Religious Freedom T Moustafa, M Nelson, B Schonthal, S Shankar American Behavioral Scientist, 2015 | 23* | 2015 |
| Pakistan's Populist Foreign Policy WB Milam, MJ Nelson Survival 55 (1), 121-134, 2013 | 20 | 2013 |
| Pakistan in 2009: Tackling the Taliban? MJ Nelson Asian Survey 50 (1), 112-126, 2010 | 16 | 2010 |
| Islamic Law in an Islamic State: What Role for Parliament? MJ Nelson Cambridge University Press, 2017 | 15 | 2017 |
| Islamic Law in an Islamic Republic: What Role for Parliament? MJ Nelson The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society; University of Oxford, 2015 | 15* | 2015 |
| Indian Basic Structure Jurisprudence in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan: Reconfiguring the Constitutional Politics of Religion MJ Nelson Asian Journal of Comparative Law 13 (2), 333-357, 2018 | 12 | 2018 |
| Islamic Education in Bangladesh and Pakistan: Trends in Tertiary Institutions M Ahmad, MJ Nelson National Bureau of Asian Research, 2009 | 12 | 2009 |
| Religious Education in Non-Religious Schools: A Comparative Study of Pakistan and Bangladesh MJ Nelson Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 46 (3), 271-295, 2008 | 12 | 2008 |
| Land, Law, and the Logic of Local Politics in the Punjab, 1849–1999 MJ Nelson Columbia University, 2002 | 11 | 2002 |
| Pandemic Politics in South Asia: Muslims and Democracy MJ Nelson The Review of Faith & International Affairs 19 (1), 83-94, 2021 | 10 | 2021 |
| Constitutional Migration and the Meaning of Religious Freedom: From Ireland and India to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan MJ Nelson The Journal of Asian Studies 79 (1), 129-154, 2020 | 10 | 2020 |
| Countries at the Crossroads 2011: Pakistan MJ Nelson Freedom House.[Online] Available at: http://www. freedomhouse. org/sites …, 2013 | 10 | 2013 |
| 'Informal Agencies of Influence in Pakistan: The Interdependence of Social, Religious, and Political Trends' MJ Nelson National Bureau of Asian Research, 2016 | 7 | 2016 |
| Islamist politics in South Asia after the Arab Spring: Parties and their proxies working with—and against—the state MJ Nelson Washington DC: Brookings Institution, 2015 | 7 | 2015 |
