Al-Ahari's writing has been included in anthologies such as (Dis)forming the American Canon: African-Arabic slave narratives (1993), African Muslims in Antebellum America: Transatlantic Stories and Spiritual Struggles (1997), and Islam Outside the Arab World (1999). His work has also appeared in magazines and journals such as Message, Islamsko Misao, Islamic Horizons, Indian Times, Fountain, al-Basheer, New Era, Muslim Journal, Amexem Times and Seasons, and Svijest, among others. He has been an editor for Moorish Science Monitor, The Islamic Cultural Center-Greater Chicago Newsletter, and Meditations. His original writings have been translated into Arabic, Bosnian, Albanian, and Turkish.
