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Slight, John (2015). The British Empire and the Hajj, 1865-1956. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Slight, John (2024). The Hajj and Colonial South Asia. In: Khan, Qaisra M. and Nassar, Nahla eds. Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage: Essays in Honour of Nasser David Khalili, Volume 2. London: GINGKO, pp. 283–306.

Slight, John (2019). Reactions to the Ottoman Jihad fatwa in the British Empire, 1914-1918. In: Johnson, Robert and Kitchen, James E. eds. The Great War in the Middle East. Routledge.

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Slight, John (2018). Anglo-French connections and co-operation against ‘Islamic’ resistance, 1914-1917. In: Fichter, James R. ed. British and French Colonialism in Africa, Asia and the Middle East: Connected Empires across the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan.

Slight, John (2017). Pilgrimage to Mecca by British converts to Islam in the interwar period. In: Flaskerud, Ingvild and Natvig, Richard J. eds. Muslim Pilgrimage in Europe. Routledge Studies in Pilgrimage, Religious Travel and Tourism. Routledge, pp. 70–82.

Slight, John (2016). British Colonial Knowledge and the Hajj in the Age of Empire. In: Ryad, Umar ed. The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire. Leiden Studies in Islam and Society. Leiden: Brill, pp. 81–111.

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Slight, John (2013). The Hajj and the Raj: From Thomas Cook to Bombay's Protector of Pilgrims. In: Porter, Venetia and Saif, Liana eds. The Hajj: Collected Essays. Research Publication (193). The British Museum Press, pp. 115–121.

Slight, John (2024). [Book Reviews] Journey in the Grand Sahara of Africa.. Middle Eastern Studies, 60(3) pp. 519–520.

Slight, John (2018). Global War and its impact on the Gulf States of Kuwait and Bahrain, 1914-1918. War and Society, 37(1) pp. 21–37.

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Slight, John (2014). British Understandings of the Sanussiyya Sufi Order’s Jihad against Egypt, 1915–17. The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, 103(2) pp. 233–242.

Slight, John (2010). British Perceptions and Responses to Sultan Ali Dinar of Darfur, 1915–16. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 38(2) pp. 237–260.

Slight, John P. (2010). British and Somali Views of Muhammad Abdullah Hassan’s Jihad, 1899–1920. Bildhaan: An International Journal of Somali Studies, 10 pp. 16–35.