Journal Details
Al-Masaq: Islam & the Medieval Mediterranean
Instructions for Authors
Submission of papers should be 5,000 to 9,000 words including footnotes; they should have clear aims with a principal thesis relevant to the journal's readership, addressing research questions or problems and specifying a research context with a critical analysis and discussion. Book review essays should be 3,000 to 4,000 words and short reviews up to 1,000 words. Submissions for publication may be in English, French and, on occasions, other languages.
No submission to the journal should have been published elsewhere or simultaneously considered for publication in another journal. Permissions to reproduce tables and illustrations should be sought by the author and appropriately referenced.
Articles should be submitted to the journal editor in electronic form (preferably as a word-document and as a pdf). Addresses for editorial correspondence are:
Jo Van Steenbergen,
General Editor, Al-Masaq,
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
Ghent University
Sint-Pietersplein 6
B-9000 Ghent
Belgium
Email: Jo.VanSteenbergen@UGent.be
or
Alun Williams
Assistant Editor, Al-Masaq,
Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies
Stocker Road,
University of Exeter,
Exeter, Devon EX4 4ND.
UK
Email: cmdtr@exeter.ac.uk
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