| Reinstating the Ottomans: Alternative Balkan Modernities, 1800-1912 I Blumi Springer, 2011 | 152 | 2011 |
| Ottoman Refugees, 1878-1939 I Blumi Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013 | 116 | 2013 |
| Destroying Yemen: What chaos in Arabia tells us about the world I Blumi Univ of California Press, 2018 | 106 | 2018 |
| Chaos in Yemen: Societal collapse and the new authoritarianism I Blumi Routledge, 2010 | 98 | 2010 |
| Rethinking the late Ottoman Empire: A comparative social and political history of Albania and Yemen, 1878–1918 I Blumi | 77 | 2003 |
| Foundations of modernity: Human agency and the imperial state I Blumi Routledge, 2017 | 65 | 2017 |
| War and Nationalism: the Balkan wars, 1912–1913, and their sociopolitical implications I Blumi, MH Yavuz University of Utah press, 2013 | 58 | 2013 |
| The commodification of otherness and the ethnic unit in the Balkans: how to think about Albanians I Blumi East European Politics and Societies 12 (03), 527-569, 1998 | 57 | 1998 |
| Contesting the edges of the Ottoman Empire: rethinking ethnic and sectarian boundaries in the Malësore, 1878–1912 I Blumi International Journal of Middle East Studies 35 (2), 237-256, 2003 | 41 | 2003 |
| Ethnic borders to a democratic society in Kosova: The UN’s identity card I Blumi Understanding the war in Kosovo, 229-248, 2004 | 39 | 2004 |
| Hoxha's class war: The cultural revolution and state reformation, 1961-1971 I Blumi East European Quarterly 33 (3), 303, 1999 | 37 | 1999 |
| Political Islam among the Albanians: Are the Taliban coming to the Balkans? I Blumi | 35 | 2005 |
| The politics of culture and power: the roots of Hoxha's postwar state I Blumi East European Quarterly 31 (3), 379, 1997 | 34 | 1997 |
| Defining social spaces by way of deletion: the untold story of Albanian migration in the postwar period I Blumi Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 29 (6), 949-965, 2003 | 33 | 2003 |
| The role of education in the formation of Albanian identity and its myths I Blumi Albanian identities: myth, narratives and politics/Schwandner-Sievers …, 2002 | 30 | 2002 |
| Thwarting the Ottoman Empire: Smuggling through the Empire’s New Frontiers in Yemen and Albania, 1878-1910 I Blumi International Journal of Turkish Studies 9 (1), 255-274, 2003 | 24 | 2003 |
| Albanians’ Islam (s) I Blumi, G Krasniqi The oxford handbook of European Islam, 475-516, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |
| Kosova: From the brink--and back again I Blumi Current History 100 (649), 369, 2001 | 20 | 2001 |
| Teaching Loyalty in the Late Ottoman Balkans: Educational Reform in the Vilayets of Manastir and Yanya, 1878-1912 I Blumi Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 21 (1), 15-23, 2001 | 19 | 2001 |
| Reorientating European Imperialism: How Ottomanism Went Global I Blumi Die Welt des Islams 56 (3-4), 290-316, 2016 | 18 | 2016 |