SPECIAL THEME: REFLECTIONS ON THE ARAB SPRING

For over twenty years Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations has been one of the leading peer-reviewed academic journals providing a forum for the academic exploration and discussion of the religious tradition of Islam, and relations between Islam and other religions. The journal seeks to provide a very timely turn-around time on articles submitted.  The editorial team is currently considering articles for publication in its special thematic issue titled “Reflections on the Arab Spring” to appear in October 2012. The journal is edited by members of the Department of Theology and Religion of Birmingham University (Birmingham, United Kingdom) and the Centre for Islam and the Modern World of Monash University (Melbourne, Australia).

The journal is soliciting submissions based on a call for articles offering reflections on the Arab spring, and particularly on:

• Islamic social movements and political reform:
• Muslim society pluralism and minority communities
• Islam and democracy
• Islamist politics

Articles should be sent to editor Professor Greg Barton (greg.barton@monash.edu), associate editor Dr Irfan Ahmad (irfan.ahmad@monash.edu) with copy to editorial assistant Virginie Andre (virginie.andre@monash.edu), in the form of e-mail attachments in simple Word format. For purposes of anonymity through the refereeing stages, the title alone should appear at the beginning, and references elsewhere that might lead to easy identification of the author should be omitted. All articles should be prefaced by an abstract of 150-200 words. The author’s postal and e-mail addresses, together with brief biographical details of about 50 words, should appear on a separate page. All pages should be numbered. Articles should be approximately 10,000 words in length (articles shorter than 9,000 words and longer than 12,000 words will not be considered), including references, appendices, tables and figures. Footnotes to the text should be avoided wherever possible.

Articles which the editors judge to have merit will be sent anonymously to two referees, and authors may be asked for changes and adjustments in the light of the referees’ reports.

Further instructions for authors regarding style guidelines, referencing and templates are available at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=0959-6410&linktype=44.

Papers should be submitted by 24 April 2012.

This international colloquium, organised by the CEDEJ at the French Institute of Egypt (Cairo) on november 7,8,9 2012, aims to discuss the urban dimension of the great changes in the Arab world, from the origins of the 2011 revolutionary episodes to the present experiences of democratisation, along with phases of political transition and socio-economic crisis in which states are still entangled. Deadline for submission: May 15, 2012.