Monday 21 January 2019

New academic publications about Islam coming online

A number of new academic publications are emerging to discuss Islam. Springer has the Islam in Southeast Asia series, and the Islam and Global Studies series.

The Islam in Southeast Asia series, edited by NM Adiong, I Yusuf, L Zubaidah Rahim, M Mohamad and N Hosen, publishes academic and policy research on historical and contemporary Muslim communities, both in the region and in the diaspora, and on all aspects of Islam in Southeast Asia.

Interdisciplinarity and eclectic contributions from scholars and practitioners are encouraged to facilitate a holistic approach towards the study of Islam.

The series particularly welcomes topics on:

- Islam and politics

- Islam and ethnicity

- Islam and modernity

- MENA influences in Southeast Asia

- Pre-modern and contemporary Islamic thought

- Sunni and Shia relations

- Islamic studies and area studies;

- Canonical and periphery Islam; and

- Relations between Muslims and non-Muslims across the region.

The series will include original monographs, Palgrave Pivots*, edited volumes/ collections, and handbooks.

The Islam and Global Studies series provides a platform for academic exchanges based on multidisciplinary sociopolitical theory that studies the human condition and human interaction from a global perspective. It publishes monographs and edited volumes that are multidisciplinary and theoretically-grounded and that address, in particular, non-state actors, Islamic polity, social and international justice, democracy, geopolitics and global diplomacy.

Cross-national, cross-cultural, minority and identity studies compose the building block of this series. Edited by Deina Abdelkader, Adiong, and Raffaele Mauriello, studies in this series:
 
- Provide comprehensive insights of the intellectual developments that have defined Islam and Muslim societies both in history and in the contemporary world;
- Delineate connections of pre-colonial Muslim experiences to their responses, adaptations and transformations toward modernity;
- Evaluate old paradigms and emerging trends that affect Muslims’ experiences in terms of political state system, democracy, secularisation, gender, radicalism, media portrayals, etc.;
- Show empirical cases of intra-Muslim and Muslim–non-Muslim relations.

Islam and International Relations is another new series. A partnership between Co-IRIS and Gerlach Press, the series editors are Adiong, Mauriello, and Abdelkader.

The series addresses the role of Islam in the study and practice of the ‘international’, in terms of both conventional relations among modern states and a broader view on interactions among humans and their societies that go beyond their locality. It aims to provide a platform for advancing research on Islam and the ‘international’ with the aim to develop and sustain a body of knowledge that addresses the theories and practices of the Islamic civilisation and of Muslim societies as regards international affairs, and hence enriches and diversifies the disciplines of international relations and geopolitics with contributions from Islamic history and thought.
 
Book proposals are welcomed in areas such as:

• Islamic theories of international relations
• Islam in international relations theories
• Islamic studies and international studies
• Islamic studies and area studies
• Islamic approaches to world politics
• Islam and foreign policy
• Islam and diplomacy
• Islam and geopolitics
• Islam and security studies
• Islam and post-colonial international relations
• Islam and global development studies
• Islam and international law
• Islam and international political economy
• Islam and international political sociology
• Islam and human rights
• Islam and international organisations

Source: Brill website. IJIA cover.
Source: Brill website. IJIA cover.
Co-IRIS and the three editors are also involved in The International Journal of Islam in Asia (IJIA) published by Brill. This is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles from all disciplines as well as single-country and comparative perspectives that concern Islam in Asia. 
 
IJIA offers a platform for scholars to engage in academic discussions about historical, contemporary, and critical studies of Islam and Muslim communities in Asia and the Asian Muslim diaspora. These include, but are not limited to, MENA-Asia relations, Islamic thought and intellectual history, intra-Muslim relations, Sufism, Islam and ethnicity, Islam and modernity, Islam and politics, Islam and the State, Islam and geopolitics, and relations between Muslims and non-Muslims across Asia.
The first issue will be published in Spring 2020.

Details:

Email book proposals for Islam in Southeast Asia to Vishal Daryanomel 

Email book proposals for Islam and International Relations to info@coiris.org and include copies to Abdelkader, Adiong and Mauriello. Read proposal guidelines 
 

Send proposals for submissions to IJIA to editors-in-chief Adiong, Abdelkader and Mauriello. Proposals for special theme issues are also welcome.

The original Palgrave Pivot from publisher Palgrave enables authors to publish at lengths of between 25,000 and 50,000 words - longer than a journal article, but shorter than a monograph.