Publications
Kuehn S. The Pearl of Meaning: Metaphor and Mystical Exegesis in Sufi Thought. In The Meaning of the Word II: : Metaphor in the Qur’an and its Interpretation. Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies. 2026
Kuehn S. Phoenix. Islam,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). De Gruyter. 2025. p. 496-499 doi: 10.1515/ebr.phoenixbird
Kuehn S. Pomegranate (Punica granatum). Islam. In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Vol. 24. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2025. p. 1243 doi: 10.1515/ebr.pomegranatepunicagranatum
Kuehn S. Afterword. Seeing Otherwise: Expanding the Lens on Female Islamic Mysticism. Religions. 2025.
Kuehn S. ‘A Real-Life Jātaka Tale’: Seeking Ethical and Spiritual Inspiration from Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan. Religions. 2025.
Kuehn S. Art, Aesthetics and Islamic Mysticism: Contemporary Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
Kuehn S, Bria G. Ashure in Post-Communist Albania: A Contested Tradition. In Hyeon Cho S, Williamson Fa S, Voswinckel Filiz E, editors, Foodways to the Divine: Faith and Food in the Middle East, North Africa, and Beyond. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 2025
Kuehn S. Ecstasies on the Sufi Path: Motion, Body, and Devotion. In Armando D, Marcus H, Villani S, von Tippelskirch X, editors, Convulsions in Early Modern Religious and Medical Practices. Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 2025
Kuehn S, (ed.). Gendered Visions: Visual Culture and Female Agency in Contemporary Islamic Mysticism. Geneva: MDPI Open Access, 2025.
Kuehn S. Introduction: Angels in Interreligious and Cross-Cultural Perspective. In Kuehn S, Maguire R, editors, Angels Unbound: Shared Skies of the Medieval World. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2025
Kuehn S. Introduction. Vision as Praxis: Framing Contemporary Female Islamic Mysticism. Religions. 2025.
Kuehn S. Rachel. Islam. In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Vol. 26. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2025
Kuehn S. Relics. Islam. In Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR). Vol. 25. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2025
Kuehn S. Sufi Materiality in Islamic Painting. In Zarcone T, Papas A, editors, Sufi Material Culture. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2025
Kuehn S. Binding and Unbinding: The Knotted Serpents on the Lining of the So-called Mantle of Roger II (528/1133–4). Der Islam: journal of the history and culture of the middle east . 2024 Oct 10;101(2):439-468. doi: 10.1515/islam-2024-0023
Kuehn S. Sufi Devotional Aesthetics: Fieldwork in Contemporary Sufi Communities in the Balkans. Marburg Journal of Religion. 2024 Mar 21;25(1):1-29. doi: 10.17192/mjr.2024.25.8694
Kuehn S. Rose Blossoms, Ashura Pudding, and a “Golden Trophy:”: Embodied Material Traces of Islamic Mysticism in Ottoman Hungary. Material religion : the journal of objects, art and belief. 2024 Jan 24;19(5):439-456. RFMR 2285584. doi: 10.1080/17432200.2023.2285584
Kuehn S. Metamorphosis, Mediation, Mannat: Sufi Spiritual Ecology and Endangered Animals in Bangladesh and Pakistan. Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. 2024 Jan;18(1):62-94. doi: 10.1558/jsrnc.23391