GENERAL INFORMATION
JOURNAL OF ARABIC AND
ISLAMIC STUDIES
ISSN: 0806-198X
1. EDITORIAL
EDITOR
Alex Metcalfe (
EDITORIAL
BOARD
Frédéric Bauden (Université de Ličge)
Joseph Norment Bell (
Michael G. Carter (Sydney University)
Agostino Cilardo (Universitŕ degli Studi di
Napoli "L'Orientale")
Kinga Dévényi (
Antonella Ghersetti (Universitŕ Ca' Foscari, Venice)
Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila
(
Carole Hillenbrand (
John O. Hunwick (
David A. King (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt)
Pierre Larcher (Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence)
Stefan Leder (Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg)
Wilferd Madelung
(
Juan Quesada Martos (Universidad Complutense
de Madrid)
James E. Montgomery (
Ute Pietruschka (Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg)
Juan A. Souto
(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Paul G. Starkey (
John O. Voll (
Petr Zemánek (
2. ABOUT
THE JOURNAL
AIMS
The Journal of Arabic and
Islamic Studies has been established to promote the study of Arabic language
and literature and Islamic civilization through the publication of research
articles and review articles. Occasional communications and shorter reviews are
for the moment not published by the Journal.
DESCRIPTION
The Journal of Arabic and
Islamic Studies is issued electronically and on paper. On the Internet it is
published by the Section of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures,
Material is released first
as pre-publication Adobe Acrobat PDF files, which in principle retain all the
formatting of traditional paper publications when viewed on the computer screen
or printed out. Adobe Acrobat Reader, which can display and print out files in
the PDF format is available free of charge for most computer platforms. It may
be obtained from Adobe Systems Incorporated. Subsequently a paper version will
be made available by the Edinburgh University Press, at which time the fully
formatted PDF files will be withdrawn from the Internet and replaced by HTML
files. For purposes of citation, please use the pagination of the printout of
the PDF file or of the paper version when it is published. These will be
identical. The pagination of the PDF files is given in brackets (black) in
the HTML versions. Underlined words before a page number are divided between
pages in the PDF version.
Currently one must search
the Journal article by article. HTML Unicode files are posted as soon as possible
after the PDF files are finalized. These are for both searching and linking.
While the text and footnotes of these files will not be altered, new links and
comments may be added at any time. Furthermore, the formatting and presentation
of these files may be altered as changes in browser technology allow. The
official version for citation is the paper version, or the final PDF files,
since there is no difference in pagination. This pagination is also given in
the HTML files (in black brackets).
To view the Journal's early
HTML files with the original diacritics, the TrueType font JAIS1 TTW (of which PC and Mac versions were available) had to be installed in one's
operating system. These files have all been removed and replaced by
identical files in HTML Unicode. Likewise all links regarding the JAIS1 TTW font, which we no longer use, have been removed.
(For very early browsers,
such as Netscape 2.02, the variable width font selected in the browser had to
be a version of JAIS1 [JAIS1 Type One or JAIS1 TTW].
Subsequent browsers were not very good at holding our composite JAIS1
characters together, and a diacritic might separate from the letter it was
intended to mark. In addition, an important diacritic, one of our lower dots
(under h, for example) did not show up at all in the later browsers.
Note, however, that this problem does not occur with a word processor like
Word, unless one is using Word as an HTML editor.)
Searching for text in an
article is accomplished from any Unicode compliant Latin keyboard. For
searching for special characters, especially those difficult to remember the
keyboard combinations for, we recommend for Word Unicoder for PC or Mac (although it is slow
since it is menu-based, and does not give the proper values for 'ayn and hamza). One
will therefore also want a language specific keyboard layout for the characters
one uses most often, and for 'ayn and hamza. An example is "Yanqut Norwegian," which might work for basic
characters for others using QUERTY keyboards.
The
Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies is devoted primarily to the publication
of research in Arabic language and linguistics, medieval and modern Arabic
literature, and Islamic culture. Contributions published by the Journal are
normally based mainly on materials in Arabic and other Near Eastern languages.
Research based on sources in Western languages will also be published in
instances where the editors consider the material especially relevant to the
purposes of the Journal.
The Monograph Series seeks
to promote the same goals as the Journal, and submissions will be subjected to
the same peer review process. The monographs are marketed by the Edinburgh
University Press separately along with its other Middle Eastern and Islamic
publications. Monographs not exceeding 256 pages will require a subsidy of GBP 1750, to which the author(s) or their institutions will
likely be asked to contribute. Submissions should be sent in PDF format along
with the original word processor file to Joseph Norment
Bell <joseph.bell@if.uib.no>.
3.
HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO INFORMATION LIST
a. To subscribe to
the Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies information list, simply send an
e-mail message to:
- listserv@uib.no
The
body of the message should contain the following:
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To
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N.B.
In both cases leave the "Subject" field blank, and turn off your
signature file. Please do not send the message to Alex Metcalfe
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When you subscribe, your
name and e-mail address is appended to the subscription list. This list is used
primarily for announcing newly published material and will provide titles,
abstracts, and retrieval instructions. Calls for papers and other important
news concerning the Journal may also be distributed in this way. In order to
minimize the burden on network resources, manuscripts published by the Journal
will not be distributed automatically.
Access to the electronic
files of the Journal is currently free. This policy will be reviewed each year
in the light of experience during previous years of publication. It is in any
event the goal of the editors to continue to make the Journal's electronic
files available at the lowest possible cost.
b. If you have a specific
query relating to the paper edition of the Journal published by the
Edinburgh University Press, or you would like a sample copy, please go to
the following site http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/journals/content.aspx?pageId=4&journalId=12464.
4.
ACCESSING THE ELECTRONIC VERSION
Open a URL connection to
the following:
- http://www.uib.no/jais/jais.htm
5.
GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
Scholarly manuscripts pertaining
to any of the areas mentioned in the Journal's Editorial Policy are welcome.
The Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies publishes material primarily in the
following two categories:
1) research articles
2) review articles (of books, articles)
The Journal
will also consider publishing review articles concerning software,
communications, book reviews, and software reviews, although such material will
not normally be solicited, and books and software will not be distributed for
review. (The policy of publishing submissions of these kinds is currently being
reassessed.) Any software reviews submitted to the Journal should discuss
primarily the relevance of the software for applications in the field of Arabic
and Islamic studies rather than technical issues.
Papers will be subject to
peer review by appropriate members of the Editorial Board or external
evaluators selected at the Editor's discretion.
Research articles, review
articles, communications, and unsolicited reviews must be submitted according
to the Submission Procedures described below.
For the convenience of
authors, the Journal treats submission and publication as a two-stage process.
Guidelines on submission
are outlined below. Guidelines on preparing an accepted manuscript for publication
and information on the reformatting and alterations that may be necessary to
accommodate the requirements of the electronic medium are available in the
files STYLE.HTM and FONTS.HTM.
All authors should follow
the guidelines for submission. The guidelines for publication
concern only those authors who have been informed by the Journal that their
work has been accepted for publication.
SUBMISSION
A. Authors should send
submissions as e-mail attachments including the original word-processor file
and an Adobe Acrobat PDF file (or separate hard copy if necessary) directly to
the Editor, <a.j.metcalfe@lancaster.ac.uk>. Send hard copy to the following address:
Dr Alex
Metcalfe
Department
of History
Tel: 0044
(0)1524 592554
Fax: +44 (0) 1524 846102
B. All submissions should
be preceded by a header containing the title of the manuscript and certain
information about it, the name(s) of the author(s), any affiliations, mail and
e-mail addresses, and telephone and telefax numbers. The header should be
formatted as in the following example:
a) Category of submission: Research Article,
Review Article (Book, Article),
Review Article (Software), Communication,
Software Review.
b) Title: Ghazal in Early Arabic Poetry
c) Author(s): Jane Doe and John H. Smith
d) Word length: 9,999 words
e) Fonts used in file: Times New Roman (Vista
version), JaghbUni
f) Date of submission: 1 January 2007
g) Address:
Name of Institution
Name of Department
Full Postal Address
E-Mail Address
Telephone Number
Fax Number
C. In the
case of Research Articles and Review Articles please include an abstract of
no more than 150 words after the header.
D. Depending on the opinion
of the editors or external evaluators, articles will be
(1) approved for publication without
alteration,
(2) approved subject to modification, or
(3) declined.
7.
EDITORIAL BOARD: E-MAIL ADDRESSES AND SELECTED AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST
The editors welcome your
questions, comments, and suggestions. Please feel free to send e-mail to the Editor,
Alex Metcalfe (Islamic and Norman
ˇ Frédéric Bauden - f.bauden@ulg.ac.be (medieval history, ancillary sciences)
ˇ Joseph Norment Bell - joseph.bell@if.uib.no (Sufism, theology, religious
culture)
ˇ Michael
G. Carter - m.carter@arts.usyd.edu.au (medieval Arabic grammatical
theory)
ˇ Agostino Cilardo - acilardo@unior.it (Islamic law and instituions, Islamic studies)
ˇ Kinga Dévényi - kinga.devenyi@uni-corvinus.hu (linguistics, proverbs)
ˇ Lutz Edzard - l.e.edzard@ikos.uio.no (Arabic and Semitic linguistics)
ˇ Antonella Ghersetti - antghers@unive.it (classical Arabic literature, Arabic linguistics)
ˇ Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila - jaakko.hameen-anttila@helsinki.fi (classical Arabic literature)
ˇ Carole
Hillenbrand - c.hillenbrand@ed.ac.uk (Islamic history and medieval
Islamic thought)
ˇ John O.
Hunwick - jhunwick@mac.com (Islamic Africa, history, Islamic
law)
ˇ David
A. King - d.a.king@orange.fr (history of science)
ˇ Pierre Larcher - plarcher@newsup.univ-mrs.fr (linguistics, traditional Arabic grammatical thought)
ˇ Stefan Leder - leder@orientphil.uni-halle.de (classical Arabic literature, culture)
ˇ Wilferd Madelung - wilferd.madelung@oriental-institute.oxford.ac.uk (early Islamic history, sects)
ˇ Juan
Quesada Martos - jmartosq@filol.ucm.es (law and science in Islamic Spain)
ˇ James
E. Montgomery - jem33@cam.ac.uk (classical Arabic thought)
ˇ Ute Pietruschka - pietruschka@orientphil.uni-halle.de (Greek influence on Islamic and
Oriental Christian thought, Syriac and Christian
Arabic literature)
ˇ Juan A.
Souto - juasouto@filol.ucm.es (history and material culture of
Islam)
ˇ Paul G.
Starkey - p.g.starkey@durham.ac.uk (modern Arabic literature)
ˇ John O.
Voll - vollj@georgetown.edu (Islamic religion, Sudan, Islam and
the West)
ˇ Petr Zemánek - petr.zemanek@ff.cuni.cz (linguistics, Semitics)
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