| The Arabic theory of prosification and versification: on ḥall and naẓm in Arabic theoretical discourse A Sanni (No Title), 1998 | 25 | 1998 |
| The Shari'ah Conundrum in Nigeria and the Zamfara Model: The Role of Nigerian Muslim Youth in the Historical Context A Sanni Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 27 (1), 117-132, 2007 | 17 | 2007 |
| Again on taḍmīn in Arabic theoretical discourse1 A Sanni Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 61 (1), 1-19, 1998 | 11 | 1998 |
| Institutionalising terror in the name of religion and polity: the Nigerian youth and the cosmos of violence A Sanni Africa Development 36 (3-4), 39-54, 2011 | 10 | 2011 |
| Arabic literary history and theory in Muslim Spain A Sanni Islamic Studies 34 (1), 91-102, 1995 | 10 | 1995 |
| Jihadist and Salafi Discourses in Sudanic Africa: Boko Haram and the Emerging Terror Network in Muslim West Africa A Sanni King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS), 2016 | 8 | 2016 |
| Conversion and reversion in the power accession narrative: Muslim prayer groups in Nigeria AO Sanni Journal of Oriental and African Studies 21, 157-166, 2012 | 8 | 2012 |
| Oriental Pearls from Southern Nigeria—Arabic-Islamic Scholarship In Yorubaland: A Case Study In Acculturation A Sanni Islamic studies 34 (4), 427-450, 1995 | 8 | 1995 |
| On taḍmīn (enjambment) and structural coherence in classical Arabic poetry A Sanni Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 52 (3), 463-466, 1989 | 8 | 1989 |
| Diagnosis through rosary and sand: Islamic elements in the healing custom of the Yoruba (Nigeria) A Sanni Med. & L. 21, 295, 2002 | 6 | 2002 |
| The indigenization of an intellectual tradition: A new trend in contemporary Islam in Yorubaland (Nigeria) A Sanni Studies in Contemporary Islam 3 (2), 2001 | 6 | 2001 |
| Rethinking and Repackaging Islamic Studies in Sub-Saharan Africa: Responses to Modernity and Globalization. The Nigerian Example A Sanni Proceedings ias-aei International Conference: New Horizons in Islamic Area …, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
| Hussein Abdul-Raof. Arabic Rhetoric. A Pragmatic Analysis. Reviewed by Amidu Olalekan Sanni AO Sanni Middle Eastern Literatures 15 (1), 97-98, 2012 | 5 | 2012 |
| The Discourse on Laḥn in Arabic Philological and Literary Traditions A Sanni Middle Eastern Literatures 13 (1), 1-19, 2010 | 5 | 2010 |
| A fourth century contribution to literary theory: Ibn Fāris's treatise on poetic licenses A Sanni Journal of Arabic Literature, 11-20, 1993 | 5 | 1993 |
| The Arabic science of lexicography: State of the art A Sanni Islamic Studies 31 (2), 141-168, 1992 | 5 | 1992 |
| Britain's First Muslims: Portrait of an Arab Community AO Sanni Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 34 (1), 90-91, 2014 | 4 | 2014 |
| The West African manuscript heritage: Challenges of the digital revolution in a research economy A Sanni African studies in the digital age, 128-147, 2014 | 4 | 2014 |
| The Covenants of the Prophet Muḥammad with the Christians of the World AO Sanni Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 35 (4), 589-592, 2015 | 3 | 2015 |
| Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt: Literature, Culture and Empire AO Sanni British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 39 (1), 154-155, 2012 | 3 | 2012 |