Monographs, edited volumes and guest-edited journals

Kuehn, S. (forthcoming) Vision and Visuality in Western European Sufism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan)

Kuehn, S. ed. (2026) Art, Aesthetics and Islamic Mysticism: Contemporary Perspectives (Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Mysticism; New York: Palgrave Macmillan), 12 chapters

Kuehn, S., with R. Maguire, eds. (2026) Shared Skies: Angelologies of Medieval Judaism, Christianity and Islam, edited volume with 11 chapters (Cardiff: Univ. of Wales Press), 11 chapters

Kuehn, S., ed. (2026) Gendered Visions: Visual Culture and Female Agency in Contemporary Islamic Mysticism, edited volume with 10 chapters (Basel: MDPI), 9 chapters

Kuehn, S. (2023–2026) guest editor of the Special Issue Female Visions: The Religious Visual Culture of Contemporary Female Islamic Mysticism, Religions 16, 9 chapters

Kuehn, S., Albera, D. and Pénicaud, M., (2022) guest editors of the Special Issue of Religiographies 1/1 Holy Sites in the Mediterranean, Sharing and Division, 9 chapters

Kuehn, S., Leder, S. and Pökel. H.-P., eds. (2019) The Intermediate Worlds of Angels. Islamic Representations of Celestial Beings in Transcultural Contexts, edited volume with 15 chapters (Beiruter Texte und Studien, 114, Beirut: Orient-Institut Beirut; Ergon Verlag in Kommission)
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Reviewed: Arabica 69 (2022), 231–243

Kuehn, S. (2016) Monsters or Bearers of Life-Giving Powers? Trans-Religious Migrations of an Ancient Western Asian Symbolism. With a Foreword by Lokesh Chandra (New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts)

Kuehn, S. (2011) The Dragon in Medieval East Christian and Islamic Art. With a Foreword by Robert Hillenbrand (Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts 86, Leiden: Brill 2011)
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Awarded: 20th World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2013, issued by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Reviewed: Journal of Studies in the Christian Culture of Asia and Africa (The State Hermitage Museum/Russian Academy of Science) 9/15 (2021), 409–418; Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques 28 (2012), 118; Eastern Christian Art 9 (2012-2013), 119–124; Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 103 (2013), 499–501; The Journal of Oriental and African Studies 22 (2013), 330–333; The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (September 2015), 1–2

Chapters in books and journal articles

Kuehn, S. (2027) “Ecstasies on the Sufi Path: Motion, Body, and Devotion,” Convulsions in Early Modern Religious and Medical Practices, eds. D. Armando, H. Marcus, S. Villani, and X. von Tippleskirch (London and New York: Routledge)

Kuehn, S. (2026) “The Dervish Made Visible: Picturing Sufi Materiality in Early-Modern Islam,” manuscript cultures 26 (“Materiality of Sufi Manuscripts”, guest eds. A. Peacock and I. Sturkenboom)

Kuehn, S. (2026) “Sufi Materiality in Islamic Painting,” Sufi Material Culture, eds. Th. Zarcone and A. Papas (Handbook of Sufi Studies, Leiden: Brill)

Kuehn, S. and G. Bria (2026) “Ashure in Post-Communist Albania: A Contested Tradition,” Foodways to the Divine: Faith and Food in the Middle East, North Africa, and Beyond, eds. S. Hyeon Cho, S. Williamson Fa, and E. Voswinckel Filiz (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press)

Kuehn, S. (2026) “Prophetic Presence and Angelic Mediation: The Earliest Depictions of the Prophet Muḥammad in Islamic Book Arts,” Shared Skies: Angelologies of Medieval Judaism, Christianity and Islam, eds. S. Kuehn with R. Maguire (Cardiff: Univ. of Wales Press)

Kuehn, S. (2026) “Messengers between Worlds: An Introduction to the Shared Angelologies of the Medieval World,” Shared Skies: Angelologies of Medieval Judaism, Christianity and Islam, eds. S. Kuehn with R. Maguire (Cardiff: Univ. of Wales Press)

Kuehn, S. (2026) “Shared Skies, Open Horizons: The Future of the In-Between,” Shared Skies: Angelologies of Medieval Judaism, Christianity and Islam, eds. S. Kuehn with R. Maguire (Cardiff: Univ. of Wales Press)

Kuehn, S. (2026) “A Sufi Monastic Tradition in the Balkans: The Bektashi Order and Its Communal Spirituality in Albania,” Klosterkultur heute – und morgen? Zur Zukunft eines religiösen Kulturerbes, eds. Markus Brodthage, Jonas Leineweber (Religionspädagogik im Kontext, Berlin: Logos-Verlag)

Kuehn, S. (2026) “Future Visions: Horizons of Female Islamic Mysticism,” Religions 16 (“Female Visions: The Religious Visual Culture of Contemporary Female Islamic Mysticism,” guest ed. S. Kuehn)

Kuehn, S. (2026) “Opening Visions: Recovering Female Islamic Mysticism,” Religions 16(“Female Visions: The Religious Visual Culture of Contemporary Female Islamic Mysticism,” guest ed. S. Kuehn)

Kuehn, S. (2026) “‘A Real-Life Jātaka Tale’: Seeking Ethical and Spiritual Inspiration from Noor-un-Nisa Inayat Khan,” Religions 16 (“Female Visions: The Religious Visual Culture of Contemporary Female Islamic Mysticism,” guest ed. S. Kuehn)

Kuehn, S. (2025) “Entangled Ambiguities: Sarı Saltuk, St. George and the Dragon in Eastern Europe,” Sufism in Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Europe: Entanglements in Past and Present, eds. C. Kara, E. Reuter, and Z. Turóczy (New York and London: Routledge), 151–184

Kuehn, S. (2026) “Relics. Islam,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), vol. 25, eds. C. M. Furey et al (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter)

Kuehn, S. (2026) “Rachel. Islam,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), vol. 25, eds. C. M. Furey et al (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter)

Kuehn, S. (2025) “Phoenix. Islam,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), Pesher, Pesharim – Pontus, vol. 24, eds. C. M. Furey et al (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter), 496–499

Kuehn, S. (2025) “Pomegranate (Punica granatum). Islam,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), vol. 24, eds. C. M. Furey et al (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter), 1243–1246

Kuehn, S. (2024) “Pearl, Pearls. Islam,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), vol. 23, Parable, Parables – Pharakim, eds. C. M. Furey et al (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter), 807–808

Kuehn, S. (2024) “Peacock. Islam,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), vol. 23, Parable, Parables – Pharakim, eds. C. M. Furey et al (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter), 768–773

Kuehn, S. (2024) “Pain and Suffering VI. Islam,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), vol. 22, Og (King of Bashan) – Papyrus, Papyri, eds. C. M. Furey et al (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter), 1137–1146

Kuehn, S. (2024) “Binding and Unbinding: The Knotted Serpents on the Lining of the So-called Mantle of Roger II (dated 528/1133–4),” Der Islam 101/2: 439–468

Kuehn, S. (2023) “Rose Blossoms, Ashura Pudding, and a ‘Golden Trophy’: Embodied Material Traces of Islamic Mysticism in Ottoman Hungary,” Material Religion 19/5 (Special Issue “Materiality of Religion in Central-Eastern Europe”): 439–456

Kuehn, S. (2023) “Vom Schmerz der Gottesliebe verwundet“: Die rosenförmigen Brandmale des Gül Baba,” Die Materialität religiöser Emotionen im Christentum, Judentum und Islam, ed. Ulrike Gleixner, Wolfenbütteler Hefte (Wolfenbüttel: Herzog August Bibliothek / Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag), 70–81

Kuehn, S. (2023) “Metamorphosis, Mediation, Mannāt: Sufi Spiritual Ecology and Endangered Animals in Bangladesh and Pakistan,” The Journal of Religion, Nature and Culture 18/1 (“Religion and the Experience of Nature”): 64–94

Kuehn, S. (2023) “Cyclical Time, Nature Spirits, and Translation Activities: The Transreligious Role of the Meeting of Khiḍr and Ilyās in the Balkans,” Inter-religious Practices and Saint Veneration in the Muslim World, eds M. Boivin and M. Pénicaud (New York and London: Routledge), 163–191

Kuehn, S. (2023) “The Literal and the Hidden in Some Albanian Bektashi Religious Materialities,” Shiʿi Materiality Beyond Karbala: Religion That Matters, eds. C. Funke, F.G. Marei, Y. Shanneik (Shia Texts and Studies, Leiden: Brill), 45–75

Kuehn, S. (2023) “Bektaşi Female Leadership in a Transnational Context: The Spiritual Career of a Contemporary Female Dervish in Germany,” Religions 14/8 (“Sufism in the Modern World”): 1–30.

Kuehn, S. (2023) “Buddhists, Turks, and Trees: Some Notes on the Practice of Khalwa of the Early Khalwatīyya in Visual and Textual Sources,” Journal of the History of Sufism 8 (“The Khalwatiyya Soufi Order”): 147–174

Kuehn, S. (2023) “Multiplication, Translocation and Adaptation: Sari Saltuq’s Multiple Embodied Localities Throughout Eastern Europe,” Constructing and Contesting Holy Places in Medieval Islam and Beyond, eds. A. Görke and M. Guidetti (Islamic History and Civilization series, Leiden: Brill), 221–256

Kuehn, S. (2023) “Contemporary Art and Sufi Aesthetics in European Context,” Religions 14/2 (“Sufism in the Modern World”): 1–39

S. Kuehn, D. Albera and M. Pénicaud (2022) “Introduction: Religious Sharing, Mixing, and Crossing in the Wider Mediterranean,” Religiographies 1/1 (“Holy Sites in the Mediterranean, Sharing and Division,” guest eds. D. Albera, S. Kuehn and M. Pénicaud): 14–21

Kuehn, S. (2022) “Mixed Worship: The Double Cult of Sarı Saltuk and St. Nicholas in the Balkans,” Religiographies 1/1 (“Holy Sites in the Mediterranean, Sharing and Division,” guest eds. D. Albera, S. Kuehn and M. Pénicaud): 63–81

Kuehn, S. (2022) “Rachid Koraïchi’s Migratory Aesthetics,” Religiographies 1/1 (“Holy Sites in the Mediterranean, Sharing and Division,” guest eds. D. Albera, S. Kuehn and M. Pénicaud): 115–141

Kuehn, S. (2022) “Über Mischwesen in der Kunst des Islam und des östlichen Christentums,” in: Monster, Chimären und andere Mischwesen in den Text- und Bildwelten der Vormoderne, eds. B. Burrichter and D. Klein (Würzburg: Verlag Königshausen & Neumann)

Kuehn, S. (2022) “Nourishment of Remembrance: Ritual Foodways during Mātam and the ʿĀshurāʾ Feast at Sufi Orders in the Balkans,” Food for Gods, Food for Mortals. Culinary and Dining Practices in the Greater Iranian World, eds. S. Farridnejad and T. Daryaee, Čistā. Studies in the History, Cultures and Religions of the Iranian World 1 (Irvine, CA: University of California), 115–141

Kuehn, S. (2021) “‘Ganymede and the Eagle’: Representations of Spiritual Ascent in the Greater Iranian World from Late Antiquity to the Medieval Period,” Sasanian Studies. Late Antique Iranian World 1: 179–205. More information

Kuehn, S. (2021) “‘In any case we are Sufis’: the creation of hijra spiritual identity in South Asia,” in: Islamology 11/1 (“Contesting Boundaries and Producing the Norm: Gender-Related Issues in Islamic Theory and Practice”): 38–61

Kuehn, S. (2021) “Piercing the Skin: Pain as a Form of Piety in Rifaʿi Ritual Sensescapes,” Collectes sensorielles. Recherche-Musée-Art, eds. V. Dassié, A. Fanlo, M.-L. Gélard, C. Isnart, and F. Molle (Paris: Éditions Pétra), 65–102. More information

Kuehn, S. (2021) “Ästhetik im Islam,” Handbuch Islamische Religionspädagogik, ed. E. Aslan (Leiden/Göttingen: Brill | V & R unipress), 563–587. More information

Kuehn, S. (2021) “Monster. Islam,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), vol. 19, Midrash and Aggadah – Mourning, eds. C. M. Furey et al (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2021), 909–913. More information

Kuehn, S. (2021) “Miracle. Islam,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), vol. 19, Midrash and Aggadah – Mourning, eds. C. M. Furey et al (Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2021), 287–291. More information

Kuehn, S. (2021) “Conceptualisations de la Covid-19 : les monstres coronavirus comme avertisseurs, révélateurs et explorateurs,” Tour du monde de la Covid-19, eds. S. Kuriyama, O. de Leonardis, C. Sonnenschein, and I. Thioub (Paris: Éditions Manucius 2021), 130–131. More information

Kuehn, S. (2020) “Meditate, Meditation. Islam,” Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), vol. 18, Mass – Midnight, eds. C. M. Furey et al (Boston, Berlin: De Gruyter), 441–444. More Information

Kuehn, S. (2020) “A Saint ‘On The Move’: Traces in the Evolution of a Landscape of Religious Memory in the Balkans,” Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes: Emplacements of Spiritual Power Across Time and Place, eds. D. Ephrat, E.S. Wolper, P.G. Pinto (Brill Handbook of Oriental Studies, Leiden: Brill), 117–148. More Information

Kuehn, S. (2019) “‘Watching Myself in the Mirror, I Saw ʿAlī in My Eyes’: On Sufi Visual and Material Practice in the Balkans,” Religious Materiality in the Early Modern World. With an Epilogue by Caroline Walker Bynum, eds. S. Ivanić, M. Laven and A. Morrall (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press), 151–173 and colour pls. 8.1 and 8.2. More Information

Kuehn, S. (2019) “The Primordial Cycle Revisited: Adam, Eve and the Celestial Beings,” The Intermediate Worlds of Angels. Islamic Representations of Celestial Beings in Transcultural Contexts, eds. S. Leder, S. Kuehn and H.-P. Pökel (Beiruter Texte und Studien, 114, Beirut: Orient-Institut Beirut; Ergon Verlag in Kommission), 173–200. More Information

Kuehn, S., S. Leder and H.-P. Pökel (2019) “Introduction,” The Intermediate Worlds of Angels. Islamic Representations of Celestial Beings in Transcultural Contexts, eds. S. Leder, S. Kuehn and H.-P. Pökel (Beiruter Texte und Studien, 114, Beirut: Orient-Institut Beirut; Ergon Verlag in Kommission), 11–45. More Information

Kuehn, S. (2019) (with L. Pokorny) “On Ināyati Female Visions in Austria: Female Leadership in the Western Sufi Tradition,” Religion in Austria 4 (Vienna: Praesens Verlag), 53–114

Kuehn, S. (2019) “Die verborgene Moschee: zur Sichtbarkeit muslimischer Gebetsräume in Wien (The Hidden Mosque: On the Visibility of Muslim Prayer Rooms in Vienna) by Josef Peter Schuller, Anwendungsorientierte Religionswissenschaft. Beiträge zu gesellschaftlichen und politischen Fragestellungen, Bd. 4, Marburg: Tectum, 2013,” Religion in Austria 4 (Vienna: Praesens Verlag), 299–306

Kuehn, S. (2018) “Wild Social Transcendence and the Antinomian Dervish,” Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society (2018), 254–285; More Information 1 / 2

Kuehn, S. (2017) “On the Transcultural and Transreligious Dimension of the so-called ‘Sēnmurw’,” Ein Hildesheimer Drachen-Aquamanile des 12. Jahrhunderts. Objekte und Eliten in Hildesheim, 1130 bis 1250, vol. 1, eds. G. Lutz and J. Olchawa (Regensburg: Schnell & Steiner, 2017), 103−126; also published in Patrimonia 382 (Berlin: Kulturstiftung der Länder)

Kuehn, S. (2017) “Pilgrimage as Muslim Religious Commemoration: The Case of Ajvatovica in Bosnia-Herzegovina,” Muslim Pilgrimage in Europe, eds. I. Flaskerud and R.J. Natvig (New York, NY: Routledge), 98–117

Kuehn, S. (2016) “The Eclipse Demons Rāhu and Ketu in Islamic Astral Sciences,” In Umbra: Demonology as a Semiotic System / ДЕМОНОЛОГИЯ КАК СЕМИОТИЧЕСКАЯ СИСТЕМА. АЛЬМАНАХ 5, eds. D. Antonov and O. Khristoforova (Moscow: Indrik), 211–244

Kuehn, S. (2016) “An Unusual Large Circular Compartmented ‘Stamp Seal’ of the Goddess with Animals: Some Thoughts on the Religious Symbol System of the Central Asian Bronze Age Culture of Bactria-Margiana,” Transactions of the Margiana Archaeological Expedition: In Memory of Professor Victor Sarianidi 6, eds. N. Dubova, E.V. Antonova, P.M. Kozhin, M.F. Kosarev, R.G. Muradov, R.M. Sataev, A.A. Tishkin (Moscow: Staryi sad), 492–508

Kuehn, S. (2016) “Vestiges of the Ourobóros in Medieval Islamic Visual Tradition,” Proceedings of the 9th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (ICAANE) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz), 169–182

Kuehn, S. (2015) “Twelver Shīʿī Components in Contemporary Bektāši Visual Piety in the Western Balkans?: A Note on Bektāši Visual Culture,” NEC Institute for Advanced Study Yearbook 2013–2014 (Bucharest: New Europe College), 289–334

Kuehn, S. “The Dragon in Medieval Islamic Astrology and Its Indian and Iranian Influences,” Proceedings of the Indo-Mongol Colloquium, 01–04 February, 2012 (New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts [forthcoming]

Kuehn, S. (2014) “The Dragon Fighter: The Influence of Zoroastrian Ideas on Judaeo-Christian and Islamic Iconography,”Zoroastrianism in the Levant, ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies 26, 1 and 2 (Leuven: Peeters), 65–101

Kuehn, S. (2014) “Engel im Islam,” Engel – himmlische Boten in alten Handschriften. Begleitbuch zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, November 2014 – Januar 2015 [Angels – Celestial Messengers in Ancient Manuscripts. Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Austrian National Library, November 2014 – January 2015], ed. M. Theisen (Berlin: Lambert Schneider), 138–171

Kuehn, S. (2014) (with M. Tütüncü) “Further Notes on the Setting of Veneration for Sari Saltuq Dede,” Balkanlara gidişinin 750. yılında Uluslararası Sarı Saltuk Gazi Sempozyumu: bildiriler, 06-10 Kasım 2013, Köstence-Romanya / Uluslararası Sarı Saltuk Gazi Sempozyumu, Constanța, Romania (Trakya Üniversitesi Yayıları: 156, Balkan Araştırma Enstitüsü yayını 4, Edirne), 218–237

Kuehn, S. (2014) “Ungeheuer als Träger lebensspendender Macht? Transreligiöse Migrationen einer alten Symbolik im Vorderen Orient (9.–14. Jh.),” EOTHEN VI, 168–188

Kuehn, S. (2014) “‘Escaping the Jaws of Death’: Some Visual Conceptualisations in Late Medieval Islamic and Eastern Christian Art,” In Umbra: Demonology as a Semiotic System / ДЕМОНОЛОГИЯ КАК СЕМИОТИЧЕСКАЯ СИСТЕМА. АЛЬМАНАХ 3, eds. D. Antonov and O. Khristoforova (Moscow: Indrik), 133–164

Kuehn, S. (2014) “The Dragon in Transcultural Skies: Its Celestial Aspect in the Medieval Islamic World,” Spirits in Transcultural Skies, Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context, eds. N. Gutschow and K. Weiler (Heidelberg: Springer), 71–97

Kuehn, S. (2012) “Reverberations of the Life and Work of the Seventeenth-Century Bosnian Shaykh and Poet Hasan Qāʾimī,” International Journal for Comparative Philosophy and Mysticism. Transcendent Philosophy Journal 13, 149–176

Kuehn, S. (2009) “On the Role of the Ophidian and the Quadruped Dragon within the Iconography of the Mythological Scheme of the Oxus Civilisation,” On the Track of Uncovering a Civilization. A Volume in Honor of the 80th Anniversary of Victor Sarianidi. Transactions of the Margiana Archaeological Expedition, vol. 3 (Moscow-St. Petersburg: Aleteia), 43–67

Kuehn, S. (2007) “Tilework on Funerary Monuments of the 12th to 14th Century in Konya Urgench (Gurganj),” Arts of Asia 38/2, 1–18

Kuehn, S. (2006) “Towards the Dragon and the Mythical Bird: Tracing Possible Antecedents for some Elements of Khitan Iconography,” Arts of Asia 36/5, 67–88