Announcements
Call for Papers
We now invite proposals for individual papers, as well as whole panels, from senior and early-career scholars from Professor to PhD level, as well as colleagues from beyond the academic world who have specialist expertise or unique insights to share.
Islamic Studies is broadly understood to include all topics and disciplinary approaches relating to the study of Islam and Muslim societies (majority and minority), across all time periods from the formative to the classical, and pre-modern to the contemporary. This includes, but is not limited to, the following suggested themes:
- Archives and Archival Studies
- Art, Architecture, Numismatics, Epigraphy and Material Culture
- Black Islam(s) and African Diaspora Studies
- Decolonising the Curriculum, including New Periodisations and (Inter)Disciplinary Approaches
- Digital Humanities in Islamic Studies
- Economy, Marketing and Finance
- Education and Pedagogy
- Environmental Humanities and Ecology
- Gender Studies
- Hadith Studies
- History and Historiography
- Intellectual History and the History of Science
- Interreligious Relations and Comparative Studies
- Islam and Muslims in the Media: Print, Online and on Screen
- Law
- Libraries and Book Cultures
- Literature and Cultural Studies including Postcolonial Studies
- Manuscript Studies and Codicology
- Muslims in Asia
- Muslims in Britain/Europe/North America and other minority contexts
- Philosophy, Theology and Ethics
- Qur'anic and Tafsir Studies
- Sociology, Anthropology and Political Science
- Sufism and Mysticism
We rely on our members to help us expand the scope of, and bring nuance to, the Islamic Studies themes covered in our Journal. In light of this, please do feel very welcome to submit Islamic Studies.
