Powers, David, and Eric Tagliacozzo, eds. 2023. Islamic Ecumene: Comparing Muslim Societies. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Powers, David. 2015. Inheritance. Oxford Bibliographies: Islamic Studies. LAST MODIFIED: 28 APRIL 2016. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Powers, David. 1986. Studies in Qurʾan and Ḥadīth: The Formation of the Islamic Law of Inheritance. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Powers, David. 2011. The Development of Islamic Law and Society in the Maghrib: Qāḍīs, Muftīs and Family Law. Collected Studies. Farnham and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Variorum.

Masud, Muhammad, Rudolph Peters, and David Powers, eds. 2006. Dispensing Justice in Islam: Qadis and Their Judgements. Studies in Islamic Law and Society. Leiden and Boston: Brill.

Ṭabarī. 1989. The Empire in Transition: The Empire in Transition: The Caliphates of Sulayman, ’Umar, and Yazid A.D. 715–724 A.H. 97–105. Translated by David Powers. The History of Al-Ṭabarī = Taʼrīkh Al-Rusul wa’l mulūk . Vol. 24. Albany: State University of New York Press.

Masud, Muhammad, Brinkley Messick, and David Powers, eds. 1996. Islamic Legal Interpretation: Muftis and Their Fatwas. Harvard Studies in Islamic Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Arabi, Oussama, David Powers, and Susan Spectorsky, eds. 2013. Islamic Legal Thought: A Compendium of Muslim Jurists. Studies in Islamic Law and Society . Leiden: Brill.

Powers, David. 2002. Law, Society, and Culture in the Maghrib, 1300–1500. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.

Powers, David. 2009. Muḥammad Is Not the Father of Any of Your Men: The Making of the Last Prophet. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Powers, David. 2014. Zayd. Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.