These are the book chapters authored by Abdelwahab El-Affendi.

> "Knowledge, Justice and conflict resolution: Islamic perspectives and traditions," pp. 42-50, Social Science and Conflict Resolution, A. Hurskainen and M Salih (eds.),Helsinki University Press ISBN 951-45-6550-9.

> "Democracy and the Islamist Paradox," pp. 311-320, Understanding Democratic Politics: Concepts, Institutions, Movements, Roland Axtmann (ed.), Sage Publications, 2003, ISBN  0-7619-7183-1

> "The Elusive Reformation," pp. 252-257, Islam and Democracy in the Middle East, Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner and Daniel Brumberg (eds), The John Hopkins University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8018-7848-9. (Same chapter also published on pp. 212-217, in World Religions and Democracy, Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner and Philip J. Costopolous (eds)The John Hopkins University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-8018-8080-7

> "On the State, Democracy and Pluralism", pp. 172-194, in Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century, Suha Taji-Farouki and Bashir M. Nafi (eds.),  I.B. Tauris, 2004, ISBN 0-7456-3347-1

> "Waiting for Armageddon: The ‘Mother of All Empires’ and its Middle Eastern Quagmire," pp. 252-276,  American Power in the 21st Century, David Held and Mathias Koenig Archibugi (eds.), Polity Press, 2004, ISBN 0-745633463

> "Hassan Turabi and the Limits of Modern Islamic Reformism," pp. 145-160, The Blackwell Companion on Contemporary Islamic Thought, Ibrahim Abu-Rabi’, ed. (Oxford: l, 2006), ISBN 1-5051-2174-2

> "Democracy and its (Muslim) Critics: an Islamic Alternative to Democracy?" pp. 227-256, in Islamic Democratic Discourse: theory, debates, and philosophical perspectives, Muqtader Khan (ed.), Lexington Books, 2006, ISBN 0-7391-0645-7

> "Race, Memory, Religion and Politics in Frances Deng’s Cry of the Owl,", 8pp., pp. 411-18, The Road Less Travelled: Reflections on the Literature of the Horn of Africa, Ali Jimale Ahmed and Taddessee Adera (eds.), Trenton, NJ: The Red Sea Press, 2008,1-56902-207-0

> ‘Islamic Revivalism and the Elusive Ethical State: Revisiting the "Damascus Model"’ in Wanda Krause, ed. Citizenship, Security and Democracy: Muslim Engagement with the West. London: Association of Muslim Social Scientists, 2009, pp. 201-238, ISBN 978-56564-443-4

> ‘Foreword’, in John L. Esposito & Zafar Ishaq Ansari, eds. Muslims and the West: Encounter and Dialogue  Richmond: Legacy Publishing, 2009, pp. xiii-xv.

> "’The Shortest Route Between Heaven and Earth’: Ethnocentrism and the Roots of Sudanese Identity in Wad Daifallah and Haj al-Mahi", in Eiman El-Nour, ed. This is the Place: in Remembrance of Tayeb Salih. Khartoum: Abd al-Karim Mirghani Centre, 2010. (In Arabic) 

> "Beyond the Conundrum of ‘Democrats without Democracy’: Mutual Reassurance as a Path to Democratic Transition in Sudan," in Ali Kuwari and Abdal Fattah Madi (eds.) Towards A Historic Democratic Bloc in Arab Countries. Beirut: Centre for Arab Unity Studies, 2010. (In Arabic), pp 141-169.. ISBN  978-9953-82-305-8

> "Islam’s future imperfect: Fighting over camels at the end of history", in John Esposito and Ali Paya (eds.) Iraq, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World, Routledge, 2010, pp. 172-183, ISBN 978-0-415-58228-5.

> "A clash of xenophobic narratives: the symbiotic relationship between Islamophobia and extremism". In: SEARCTT's selection of articles. The Southeast Asia Regional Centre for Counter Terrorism (SEARCTT), Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mayalsia, pp. 30-56. ISBN 9789834439712

> "Political Culture and the Crisis of Democracy in the Arab World", in Ibrahim Elbadawi and Samir Makdisi  (eds.) Democracy in the Arab World: Explaining the Deficit, London: Routledge, (2010), pp. 12-40. ISBN-13: 978-0415779999.