Prolific Writer
Dr Sami Makarem wrote over twenty five books mainly concerning Islamic history and studies, Lebanese history and the Druze faith, in addition to a great number of articles in different specialized periodicals, and hundreds of art works.
Books:
• Al-Shi’r al-‘Arabi fi Lubnan Bayn al-Harbayn al-‘Alamiyyatayn (Arab Poetry in Lebanon between the Two World Wars), 1957
• Ash-Shafiya, an Ismaili Poem Attributed to Shihabeddin Abu Firas (Edition and Translation into English with Notes and Introduction by Sami Makarem),1966
• Shiraz Madinat al-Awliya’ wash-Shou’ara’, a Translation of A. Arberry’s Shiraz Persian City of Saints and Poets, 1966
• Adwa’ ‘ala Maslak at-Tawhid (Lights on the Druze Faith), 1966
• Al-Islam fi Mafhum al-Muwahhidin (Islam in the Druze Understanding), 1970
• The Doctrine of the Ismailis, 1972
• The Political Doctrine of the Ismailis; The Imamate, 1979
• Al-Hallaj,1989, New Edition, 2004
• ‘Ashiqaat Allah (The loving “Saints” of God), 1994
• Ash-Shaykh ‘Ali Faris Waliyy min al-Qarn ath-Thamin ‘Ashar (Shaykh Ali Faris, An eighteenth-century Druze saint) 1998
• Lubnan fi ‘ahd al-Umara’ at- Tanukhiyyin (Lebanon Under the Tanukhid Emirs), 2000
• Al Taqiyya fil Islam (Dissimulation in Islam), 2004
• Al-‘Irfan fi Maslak at-Tawhid (Mysticism in the Druze Faith), 2006
• Introduction to the book – History of Abdul Malak’s Territories in Lebanon by Abdul Majid Abdul Malak, 2000
English (UK) 
العربية