| Liberal Islam: a sourcebook C Kurzman Oxford University Press, 1998 | 955 | 1998 |
| The unthinkable revolution in Iran C Kurzman Harvard University Press, 2004 | 787 | 2004 |
| Structural opportunity and perceived opportunity in social-movement theory: The Iranian revolution of 1979 C Kurzman American Sociological Review, 153-170, 1996 | 763 | 1996 |
| Modernist Islam, 1840-1940: a sourcebook C Kurzman Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 | 501 | 2002 |
| The sociology of intellectuals C Kurzman, L Owens Annual Review of Sociology 28 (1), 63-90, 2002 | 316 | 2002 |
| Wacana Islam Liberal: Pemikiran Islam Kontemporer tentang Isu-isu Global C Kurzman Jakarta: Paramadina, 2001 | 270 | 2001 |
| Celebrity status C Kurzman, C Anderson, C Key, YO Lee, M Moloney, A Silver, ... Sociological theory 25 (4), 347-367, 2007 | 269 | 2007 |
| Democracy’s effect on economic growth: a pooled time-series analysis, 1951–1980 C Kurzman, R Werum, RE Burkhart Studies in comparative international development 37, 3-33, 2002 | 250 | 2002 |
| Meaning-making in social movements C Kurzman Anthropological Quarterly 81 (1), 5-15, 2008 | 247 | 2008 |
| The Missing Martyrs: Why Are There So Few Muslim Terrorists? C Kurzman Oxford University Press, 2018 | 175 | 2018 |
| Democracy Denied, 1905-1915 C Kurzman Harvard University Press, 2008 | 163 | 2008 |
| The logistics: How to buy votes CS Wang, C Kurzman Elections for sale: The causes and consequences of vote buying, 61-78, 2007 | 152 | 2007 |
| The poststructuralist consensus in social movement theory C Kurzman | 140* | 2004 |
| Do Muslims Vote Islamic? C Kurzman, I Naqvi J. Democracy 21, 50, 2010 | 132 | 2010 |
| Waves of democratization C Kurzman Studies in Comparative International Development 33, 42-64, 1998 | 132 | 1998 |
| Globalizing social movement theory: The case of eugenics D Barrett, C Kurzman Theory and Society 33, 487-527, 2004 | 118 | 2004 |
| Can understanding undermine explanation? The confused experience of revolution C Kurzman Philosophy of the social sciences 34 (3), 328-351, 2004 | 97 | 2004 |
| An Islamic Reformation? M Browers, C Kurzman Lexington Books, 2004 | 97 | 2004 |
| The Arab Spring: Ideals of the Iranian green movement, methods of the Iranian revolution C Kurzman International Journal of Middle East Studies 44 (1), 162-165, 2012 | 96 | 2012 |
| Dilemmas of electoral clientelism: Taiwan, 1993 CS Wang, C Kurzman International Political Science Review 28 (2), 225-245, 2007 | 91 | 2007 |
