Books
As author, co-author and editor.
Sufism and the Culture of Cape Islam Latest
Editor
Dar al-Turath al-Islami, 2026The first systematic historical study of taṣawwuf at the Cape—a landmark work tracing Sufism's development from its formative period through the major ṭuruq into the religious culture forged between 1667 and 1945. Hendricks shows, with rare scholarly depth, that Sufism was the structural and spiritual core of Cape Muslim life, shaping its law, institutions, and communal memory.
Rethinking Religion and Radicalization
Terrorism and Violence Twenty Years After 9/11
Co-editor
Bloomsbury Academic, 2025An empirically grounded study of the relationships between religion and violent radicalization across cultures, regions and faiths, moving beyond the assumption, cemented after 9/11, that Islam is the key driver of religiously inspired violence.
Reviewed in CHOICE, International Affairs
Suppressing Dissent
Shrinking Civic Space, Transnational Repression and Palestine–Israel
Co-editor
Oneworld Academic, 2024Civic space worldwide is shrinking, and nowhere is this plainer than in Palestine–Israel. Leading experts show how failing to address the phenomenon has consequences in the United States, the Middle East and beyond.
The Egyptian Revolution of 1919
Legacies and Consequences of the Fight for Independence
Co-editor
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022The 1919 Egyptian revolution was the founding event for modern Egypt's nation state. So far there has been no text that looks at the causes, consequences and legacies of the 1919 Egyptian Revolution.
A Luminous Lamp
Author
Dar al-Turath al-Islami, 2021A biography of Shaykh Seraj Hendricks of Cape Town, and the story of how the Muslims at the Cape, after two centuries of forced migration, isolation and enslavement, re-established their links with the Muslim world and with Makka.
A Sublime Way
The Sufi Path of the Sages of Makka
Co-author
Fons Vitae, 2018The path of the scholars of Makka, Ṭarīqa ʿUlamā Makka, as taught by the sages of the Holy Cities and their students in South Africa.
The Islamic Tradition and the Human Rights Discourse
Editor
Atlantic Council, 2018The Islamic Tradition and the Human Rights Discourse is a collection of thought provoking articles that aim to elevate the conversation on Islam and human rights beyond the confines of “compatibility.” The report, compiled and edited by Dr. A.
A Revolution Undone
Egypt's Road Beyond Revolt
Author
Hurst / Oxford University Press, 2016Egypt's revolution and its unravelling, traced from the January 2011 uprising through the military's return, by an analyst who was in Cairo through all of it.
Reviewed in Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Times Literary Supplement, The Economist
Muslims of Europe
The ‘Other’ Europeans
Author
Edinburgh University Press, 2010Who Europe's Muslims are, where they came from, and how European states have answered the questions of religion, law and belonging that their presence raised.
Engagement with the Muslim Community and Counter-Terrorism
British Lessons for the West
Author
Brookings Institution, 2007This paper looks to provide policy recommendations for Western governments with significant Muslim populations.
