Sanyal has authored five books: •
Scholars of Faith: South Asian Muslim Women and the Embodiment of Religious Knowledge,
Oxford University Press. • ''Food, Faith and Gender in South Asia: The Cultural Politics of Women's Food Practices (Criminal Practice Series)'', editor, with
Nita Kumar, 2020
Bloomsbury Academic (20 February 2020). •
Muslim Voices: Community and Self in South Asia (New Perspectives on Indian Pasts) with David Gilmartin, and Sandria Freitag, eds. Delhi:
Yoda Press, 2013. •
Devotional Islam and Politics in British India: Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and His Movement, 1870-1920. 1st & 2nd editions. New York and Delhi:
Oxford University Press, 1999. 3rd edition. Delhi:Yoda Press, 2010 (Urdu Translation in 2013) •
Ahmed Raza Khan: In the Path of the Prophet. Oxford: Oneworld Publications. 2005
Devotional Islam and Politics in British India received a positive review from the scholar and translator of South Asian literature Aditya Behl in
The Journal of Religion. He described it as "a well-researched and welcome addition to the literature on Islamic reform in colonial India". Her articles include: • "South Asian Islamic Education in the Pre-Colonial, Colonial, and Postcolonial Periods" In Global Education Systems. Handbook of Education Systems in South Asia, eds. Padma M. Sarangapani and Rekha Pappu (Forthcoming,
Springer Nature India) • "Sufism through the Prism of Shari‘a: A Reformist Barelwi Girls’ Madrasa in Uttar Pradesh, India" In Katherine P. Ewing and Rosemary Corbett, eds., Modern Sufis and the State: Rethinking Islam and Politics in South Asia and Beyond (
Columbia University Press, forthcoming). • "Discipline and Nurture: Living in a Girls’ Madrasa, Living in Community," co-authored with Sumbul Farah, in
Modern Asian Studies (2018) • "
Al-Huda International: How Muslim Women Empower Themselves through Online Study of the Qur’an," in Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World (2015) 13(3): 449–460. • "Changing Concepts of the Person in Two Ahl-e Sunnat/Barelwi Texts for Women: The Sunni
Bihishti Zewar and Jannati Zewar, in Usha Sanyal, David Gilmartin, and Sandria Freitag, eds., Muslim Voices: Community and the Self in South Asia, eds. Usha Sanyal, David Gilmartin, and Sandria Freitag (New Delhi: Yoda Press. 2013) • "Barelwis." In
The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 3rd ed., pp. 94–99. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2011. • "Sufi Ritual Practice among the Barkatiyya Sayyids of U.P.: Nuri Miyan’s Life and Urs, Late Nineteenth – Early Twentieth Centuries." In
Barbara D. Metcalf, ed., Islam in South Asia in Practice. Series ed.
Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
Princeton University Press, 2009. • "Ahl-i Sunnat Madrasas: The Madrasa Manzar-i Islam, Bareilly, and Jamia Ashrafiyya, Mubarakpur." In Jamal Malik ed., Madrasas in South Asia. Routledge, 2008. • "
Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi." Encyclopedia of Islam, 3rd edition. Leiden:
E. J. Brill, 2007. • "Tourists, Pilgrims and Saints:
The Shrine of Mu`in al-Din Chishti of Ajmer" In Carol Henderson and Maxine Weisgrau, eds., Raj Rhapsodies: Tourism, Heritage and the Seduction of History.
Ashgate Publishing Ltd., U.K., 2007. • "Barelwis." In
Jane D. McAuliffe, ed.,
Encyclopedia of the Quran, vol. 1, pp. 201–203. Leiden:E. J. Brill, 2002. • "The [Re-]Construction of South Asian Muslim Identity in Queens, New York." In Carla Petievich, ed., The Expanding Landscape: South Asians and the Diaspora, pp. 141–152. New Delhi: Manohar, 1999. • "Generational Changes in the Leadership of the
Ahl-e Sunnat Movement in North India during the Twentieth Century." Modern Asian Studies 32, 3 (1998): 635–656. • "Are Wahhabis Kafirs? Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi and His Sword of the Haramayn." In
Muhammad Khalid Masud, Brinkley Messick, and David S. Powers, eds., Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and Their Fatwas, pp. 204–213. Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 1996. • "Barelwis." In
John L. Esposito, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, vol. 1, pp. 200–203. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. • "Pir, Shaikh, and Prophet: The Personalization of Religious Authority in Ahmad Riza Khan’s Life." In Contributions to Indian Sociology 28, 1 (1994): 35–66. (Also published in
T. N. Madan, ed., Muslim Communities of South Asia: Culture, Society, and Power, pp. 405–428. New Delhi: Manohar, 1995.) == See also ==