McChesney, Robert. 2021. Four Central Asian Shrines: A Socio-Political History of Architecture. Studies in Persian Cultural History. Leiden and Boston: Brill.

McChesney, Robert. 1991. Waqf in Central Asia: Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine, 1480-1889. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Kazemi, Farhad, and Robert McChesney, eds. 1988. A Way Prepared: Essays on Islamic Culture in Honor of Richard Bayly Winder. New York: New York University Press.

Hazārah, Fayẕ. 2013. The History of Afghanistan: Fayẕ Muḥammad Kātib Hazārah’s Sirāj Al-Tawārīkh. Edited by Robert McChesney and Mehdi Khorrami. 4 volumes in 11 parts vol. Leiden and Boston: Brill.

Hazārah, Fayẕ. 2019. Fayż Muḥammad Kātib Hazḥrah’s Afghan Genealogy and Memoir of the Revolution: Supplement to The History of Afghanistan. Edited by Robert McChesney and Mehdi Khorrami. 3 volumes in 6 vol. Leiden and Boston: Brill.

Schinasi, May. 2016. Kabul: A History 1773-1948. Translated by Robert McChesney. Leiden and Boston: Brill.