Books

• Double-Minded: How Sex Is Dividing the Australian Church. Melbourne: Deror Books.

• With Benjamin Hegeman. Liberty to the Captives: Training Manual. Melbourne: Deror Books.  (Translations into 20 languages as at March 2025)
• (prev. editions: 2013, 2010) Liberty to the Captives: Freedom from Islam and Dhimmitude through the Cross. 4nded. Melbourne: Deror Books.  (Translations into 30+ languages as at June 2025).

• The Qur’an and its Biblical Reflexes: Investigations into the Genesis of a Religion. Lanham, MD: Lexington.

• Which God? Jesus, Holy Spirit, God in Christianity and Islam. 2nd ed. Melbourne: Deror Books.  Translations published in Malay and Mandarin Chinese.

• The Third Choice: Islam, Dhimmitude and Freedom. Melbourne: Deror Books.

• Revelation?  Do we worship the same God?  CityHarvest Press, Queensland. Translated into Dutch.

• A trilingual Acehnese lexicon and thesaurus  (With B. Daud). Pacific Linguistics and Universitas Syiah Kuala press.

• The comparative method reviewed  (ed. with Malcolm Ross) Oxford University Press, New York.

• Catalogue of Acehnese manuscripts in the Library of Leiden University and other collections outside Aceh. Compiled by P. Voorhoeve in co-operation with T. Iskandar.  Translated and edited by Mark Durie.   Leiden University Library (Legatum Warnerianum) in co-operation with Indonesian Linguistics Development Project (ILDEP), Leiden.

• A grammar of Acehnese on the basis of a dialect of North Aceh  Verhandelingen 112 van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde, Foris Dordrecht.

Journal articles and chapters in books

• Engaging Muslims in Love and Truth: A Response to Julie B. Ma. Seedbed. 35(2):99-114.
• The meaning of the Son of God. Cognitive Semantics. 10:327-359.

• The influence of Charles Kraft on mission to Muslims, in Ayman Ibrahim and Ant Greenham, eds. Islam and the Bible: Questioning Muslim Idiom Translations. Brentwood, TN: B&H. 97-130.

• Semantic decomposition of four Quranic words. Russian Journal of Linguistics. 26(4):937-969.
• What has Mecca to do with Jerusalem? Sacred geography and the etymology of Al-Ṣafā and Al-Marwah, in Leonid Iomdin, Jasmina Milićević, and Alain Polguère eds. Lifetime Linguistic Inspirations: To Igor Mel’čuk from Colleagues and Friends for his 90th Birthday. Berlin: Peter Lang, 167-173.
• Rasūlology: Qurʾānic messengers and Biblical prophets, in Daniel S. Baeq and Sam Kim, eds. Prophets in the Qurʾān and the Bible. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 1-27.
• Dawud, in Daniel S. Baeq and Sam Kim, eds. Prophets in the Qurʾān and the Bible. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 135-145.
• Islamic antisemitism drives the Arab-Israeli conflict. Middle East Quarterly 29:3. 8pp.
• Right, left and the politics of time: a Christian response. Zadok Papers S258: 7-11. Autumn 2022

• What is Islam’s relationship to Christianity? The Theological Analysis of the Bible and the Quran, in Lausanne Global Analysis 10(6).
• The Dhimmitude of the West: a new trajectory?, in Ruth J. Nicholls, ed. Perspectives on Islam and Politics. Occasional Papers in the Study of Islam and Other Faiths no.9. Wantirna: MST Press, 85-95.
• Islam, in Daniel McCoy, ed. The Popular Handbook of World Religions. Irvine, CA: Harvest House, 102-121.

• Messianic Judaism and deliverance from the two covenants of Islam.  In Ayman S. Ibrahim and Ant Greenham, eds. Muslim Conversions to Christ: A Critique of Insider Movements in Islamic Contexts. New York: Peter Lang, 265-282.
• Problems with the Qur’an origin story. In Ruth J. Nicholls ed. Understanding and Answering Islam. Wantirna: MST Press, 45-63.

• Sleepwalking into sharia: hate speech laws and Islamic blasphemy strictures. International Trade and Business Law Review. 15: 394-407.

• Facts fuel growing unease. Viewpoint. 5: 12-15.

• The hidden currents of Western responses to Islam. In David Claydon (ed). Islam, Human Rights and Public Policy, 29-35.
• Muhammad’s life – the fundamental example.  In David Claydon (ed). Islam, Human Rights and Public Policy, 51-58.
• The creed of the sword. In David Claydon (ed). Islam, Human Rights and Public Policy, 115-124.
• Amina Lawal and the Islamic Sharia. In David Claydon (ed). Islam, Human Rights and Public Policy, 148-154.
• Anti-Terrorism Fatwas and Pacts for Peace. In David Claydon (ed). Islam, Human Rights and Public Policy, 167-175.

• What did Jesus have to do with violence?  In The Apologetics Study Bible: Understand Why You Believe, edited by Ted Cabal, Chad Brand, Paul Copan, and James Porter Moreland, 331–344. Nashville: Holman.

• ‘Isa, the Muslim Jesus.  In Robert Spencer (ed). The Myth of Islamic Tolerance.  Amherst, New York:  Prometheus Books.
• The Dhimmitude of the West.  In Robert Spencer (ed). The Myth of Islamic Tolerance.  Amherst, New York:  Prometheus Books.
• Documentation of oppression of religious freedom in Aceh, Indonesia. In Robert Spencer (ed). The Myth of Islamic Tolerance.  Amherst, New York:  Prometheus Books.

• New light on information pressure: information conduits, escape valves, and role alignment stretching.  In Du Bois, John W., Kumpf, Lorraine E. and Ashby, William J. (eds).  Preferred Argument Structure:  Grammar as Architecture for Function.  Amsterdam and Philadelphia:  Benjamins, 159-196.

• The temporal mediation of structure and function.  In Michael Darnell, Fritz Newmeyer, Edith Moravcsik and Mickey Noonan (eds).  Formalism and Functionalism Volume I: General Papers.  Amsterdam and Philadelphia: Benjamins, 417-444.

• Grammatical structures in verb serialization.  In Complex Predicates, Alex Alsina, Joan Bresnan and Peter Sells eds., CSLI Press and Cambridge University Press, 289-354.

• Grammar’s fall from grace.  EQ Australia, issue 4: 31-32.
• The need to know about language.  EQ Australia, issue 4: 39-41.
• Introduction.  (With Malcolm Ross).  In The comparative method reviewed.  Mark Durie and Malcolm Ross (ed.), Oxford University Press, 3-38.
• Poetry and worship: manuscripts from Aceh.  In Ann Kumar and John H. McGlynn (eds.) Illuminations:  the writing traditions of Indonesia.  The Lontar Foundation, Jakarta, and Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 79-100.
• Ancient links:  the mystery of South Sumatra.  In Ann Kumar and John H. McGlynn (eds.) Illuminations:  the writing traditions of Indonesia.  The Lontar Foundation, Jakarta, and Weatherhill, New York and Tokyo, 247-252.
• Early Germanic umlaut and variable rules.  In The comparative method reviewed.  Mark Durie and Malcolm Ross (ed.), Oxford University Press, 112-134.
• Framing the Acehnese text: language choice and discourse structures in Aceh.  Oceanic Linguistics 35.1:113-137.

• Getting it right:  more on an orthography for Australian English.   (with John Hajek) Australian Journal of Linguistics  15.2:227-239.
• Towards an understanding of linguistic evolution and the notion ‘X has a function Y’.  In Werner Abraham, T. Givón and Sandra A. Thompson (eds.) Discourse grammar and typology.  Pp. 275-308.  Studies in Language Companion Series Vol. 27.  Amsterdam: John Benjamins, Amsterdam.
• Acehnese.  In Darrell T. Tryon (ed.) Comparative Austronesian Dictionary.  Pp. 405-418. Trends in Linguistics: Documentation.  Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.
• Acehnese word-list.    In Darrell T. Tryon (ed.) Comparative Austronesian Dictionary.  Trends in Linguistics: Documentation.  Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin.

• Pragmatic Linking in Acehnese TEXT 14.4:495-529.
• A revised standard phonemic orthography for Australian English vowels (with John Hajek).  Australian Journal of Linguistics 14.1:93-107.
• Acehnese. (Principal author, with Bukhari Daud and Mawardi Hasan)  In Anna Wierzbicka and Cliff Goddard (eds.) Lexical and Semantic Universals.  Pp. : 171-201.  John Benjamins, Amsterdam.

• Transitivity and argument coding. In William Bright (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Linguistics Vol 4, 176-177.  New York: Oxford University Press.

• Proto-Chamic and Acehnese mid vowels: towards Proto-Aceh-Chamic.  Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 53.1:100-114.

• What’s in a grammar:  a reply to Stokhof.  Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 145:165-280.

• Preferred argument structure in an active language: arguments against the category ‘intransitive subject’.  Lingua  74:1-25.
• Verb serialization and “verbal prepositions” in Oceanic languages.  Oceanic Linguistics 27:1-23.
• The so-called passive of Acehnese.  Language  64:104-113.
• So-called initial 1 verbal agreement in Kapampangan.  Linguistic Inquiry   19:147-154.

• Grammatical relations in Acehnese.  Studies in Language  11:365-399.
• The orthographic representation of nasal vowels in Acehnese.  Orthography and Phonology,  Philip A. Luelsdorff (ed.).  Pp. 131-150.  John Benjamins, Amsterdam.

• The grammaticization of number.  Proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.  Pp. 355-370.
• The use of passive-like strategies in Acehnese.  In Miscellaneous studies in Indonesian and other languages in Indonesia, Part VII, Soenjono Dardjowidjojo (ed.).   NUSA  25:19-30.  Lembaga Bahasa, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya, Jakarta.

• Control and decontrol in Acehnese.  Australian Journal of Linguistics  5:43-53.

• (co-author) Stiffness corrections for the vibration frequency of a stretched wire.  American Journal of Physics.

• A note on unit fractions.  Parabola  10.3: 7-8.

Book notices and reviews

• Review of Fred Farrokh, 2023. Whatever happened to Christianity? A Tafsir for Muslim Scholars and Thinkers.Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock. Middle East Quarterly 31.2 2pp.

• Review of Stephen J. Shoemaker, 2022. Creating the Qur’an: A Historical-Critical Study. Oakland: University of California Press. Middle East Quarterly. 30.4 1pp.
• Review of Robert Spencer, 2021. The Critical Qur’an: Explained from Key Islamic Commentaries and Contemporary Historical Research. New York: Bombardier Books. Middle East Quarterly. 30:2. 2pp.
• Review of Aaron W. Hughes, 2022. An Anxious Inheritance: Religious Others and the Shaping of Sunni Orthodoxy. New York: OUP. Middle East Quarterly. 30:1. 2pp.

• Review of Anna Wierzbicka, 2019. What Christians Believe: The Story of God and People in Minimal English. Oxford: OUP.  International Journal of Language and Culture. 8.2: 373-375.

• Review of Kevin Giles, 2020. The Headship of Men and the Abuse of Women. Eugene, OR: Cascade. Equip 37: 31.
• Review of Nicolas Sinai, 2017. The Qur’an: A historical-critical introduction. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 242pp. Journal of Oriental and African Studies. 140.2:509-511.

• Review of Abraham Kuyper, 2017. On Islam. Eds. James D. Bratt and Douglas Howard. Trans. Jan van Vliet.  Bellingham, WA: Lexham 2019.  Themelios 2019: 44.2:419-420.

• Review of Sam Solomon and Atif Debs, Not the same God: Is the Qur’anic Allah the Lord God of the Bible?223pp. London: Wilberforce publications. Southern Baptist Journal of Theology 21.2.

• Review of Miroslav Volf, 2010. Allah: a Christian Response. New York: HarperOne. Southern Baptist Journal of Theology, 15.2: 116-120.

• Review of Andrew Bostom, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: from Sacred Texts to Solemn History. 766 pp. Prometheus.  First Things, March 2009, 191: 59.

• Review of Chawkat Moucarry, Faith to faith:  Christianity and Islam in Dialogue, 2001.  Leicester:  IVP. 327pp. Journal of Anglican Studies 2005, 3: 245-6.

• Review of Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen, Reading images:  the grammar of visual design.  English in Australia.

• Review of Walter Bisang, 1992 Das Verb in Chinesischen, Hmong, Vietnamesischen, Thai und Khmer.  Vergleichende Grammatik im Rahmen der Verbserialisierung, der Grammatikalisierung und der Attraktorpositionen.  Language Universals Series, Vol. 7.  Tübingen: Gunter Narr Verlag.  IX + 524 pp.  STUF: 49:182-187.

• Review of Carol Georgopoulos, 1991 Syntactic Variables: resumptive pronouns and A’ Binding in Palauan.  Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.  Volume 24.   Dordrecht:  Kluwer.  x + 245 pp.  Journal of Linguistics 29.2
• Review of C.D. Grijns 1991 Jakarta Malay: a multidimensional approach to spatial variation.  Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde No.149.  Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land-, en Volkenkunde 149:169-172.
• (With Ilia Pejros).  Review of Robert Parkin 1991 A guide to Austroasiatic speakers and their languages.  Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications Series No. 23.  University of Hawaii Press.  AUMLA  79:114-117.

• Notice of Bambang Kaswanti Purwo and John W. M. Verhaar (eds) 1984 Toward a description of contemporary Indonesian:  Preliminary studies, Parts I, II.  NUSA, Vols. 18-19.  Universitas Atma Jaya, Indonesia.  Language  63:190-91.
• Notice of Gérard Diffloth 1984 The Dvaravati Old Mon language and Nyah Kur.  Monic Language Studies 1. Chulalongkorn University Printing House, Bangkok, Thailand.  Language  63:440-1.
• Notice of Wolfgang Wildgen 1985 Archetypensemantic: Grundlagen für eine dynamische Semantik auf der Basis der Katastrophentheorie.  Ergebnisse und Methoden moderne Sprachwissenschaft 21.  Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen.  Language  63:424-5.