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The editors welcome original papers, critical book review articles and short communications. Submission of papers should be 5,000 to 8,000 words including endnotes; they should have clear aims with a principal thesis relevant to the journal's readership, original, 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.

The journal invites submissions in the humanities and social sciences. It welcomes submissions for thematic issues. The main professional areas of interest are; transmission and communication of culture in the Mediterranean, Islam and imagery in art, Islam in medieval European writings, Islam in art and architecture, material culture, seafaring and coastal communities, archaeology, rural and urban settlements, hagiography, sermons and related literature, conversion (Jewish, Christian and Islamic), Crusades and the Latin East, gender and the Mediterranean, women in literature and society, Islam in Spain and Sicily, Norman Sicily and Islam, Byzantium and Islam, Orthodox Christianity, art and imagery (icons and paintings), monasticism and religious life, government and warfare, medicine, science and technology, military history, concepts of national identity in the Mediterranean, geography and settlement studies, historical writing, archives and resources, languages and literatures (Latin, Greek and Arabic). Contributors may write on any of the above themes addressing their ideas to the journal's interdisciplinary and the international audience.

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.

All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed to ensure competence in all fields of research and editorial direction of the journal and only those receiving favourable recommendation will be accepted for publication. Re-submissions will be considered if and when the referees indicate a need for significant revision.

An abstract of around 150 words should precede the introduction. The aims and objectives of the article should be stated clearly, giving an indication of the results obtained in the paper. Keywords in the abstract are essential in order to capture the attention of readers from other disciplines.

These should be in endnote form, as follows:

Books: John Julius Norwich, The Normans in the South 1016-1130 (London: Longman, 1967), p.90

Journal Articles: Elcanor A.Congdon, "Private Venetian ships and shipping c.1400 ", Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, 10 (1998): 57-8

Chapter in Edited Works: Meyer Schapiro, "Words and pictures. On the literal and symbolic in the illustrations of a text ", in Approaches to Semiotics , ed. Thomas A. Sebeok (Paris - the Hague: Mouton, 1973), p.47

Submissions should be sent to:
Professor Dionisius A. Agius, Chair in Arabic & Islamic Material Culture, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, Stocker Road, University of Exeter, Devon  EX4 4ND, England.
E-mail: D.A.Agius@exeter.ac.uk

Rejected manuscripts will not normally be returned.

Electronic Submissions Three copies of the manuscript should be submitted with the disk to the journal's editorial office (see below). Save all files on a standard 3.5 inch high-density disk. We prefer to receive disks in Microsoft Word in a PC format, but can translate from most other common word-processing programmes. Please specify which programmes you have used. Do not save files as "text only" or "read only".

Tables and captions to illustrations: Tables must be typed out on separate sheets and not included as part of the text. The captions to illustrations should be gathered together and also typed out on a separate sheet. Tables and figures should be numbered by Arabic numerals. The approximate position of tables and figures should be indicated in the manuscript. Captions should include keys to symbols.

Figures: Artwork must be submitted in suitable condition for publication.

Quotations: Quoted material over forty words in length should be set out from the text by being indented three spaces. The original spelling and punctuation of the quotation should be reproduced exactly. Poetry, diagrams, line drawings, etc., should be reproduced as their original layout. In brackets at the end of the extract, give the author's name, the title and the date of the work quoted from, and the page numbers of the extract.

To assist the authors to achieve consistency in matters of presentation authors should consult the Al-Masaq Style Sheet published in Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, 14:1 (2002): 73-76.

References: These should be in endnote form as follows:

Books: John Julius Norwich, The Normans in the South 1016-1130 (London: Longman, 1967), p.90.

Journal Articles: Eleanor A. Congdon, "Private Venetian ships and shipping c. 1400", Al-Masaq: Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean, 10 (1998): 57-8.

Chapter in Edited Works: Meyer Schapiro, "Words and pictures. On the literal and symbolic in the illustrations of a text", in Approaches to Semiotics, ed. Thomas A. Sebeok (Paris-the Hague: Mouton, 1973), p.47.

Proofs: These will be sent to authors. They should be corrected and returned to the publishers within three days. Major alterations to the text cannot be accepted.

Free article access: Corresponding authors can receive 50 free reprints, free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Complimentary reprints are available through Rightslink® and additional reprints can be ordered through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk

Copyright: It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to the Society for the Medieval Mediterranean. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.