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The
Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies,
a newly established biannual (June and November) journal, to be
copyrighted at Binghamton University of the State University of New York, is
accepting articles for its first issue of its first volume, tentatively set to
appear in the late spring/early summer of 2001. As a rule the editors will
require that articles be original and not under consideration for publication
elsewhere. However, in some instances previously published articles will be
considered, especially if deemed by the editors highly innovative and
important and if they had not been widely circulated outside of the Middle
East and North Africa (for example, if they had been published in a journal of
relatively limited circulation or if they had been published in one of the
major languages of the Middle East and North Africa and never translated).
Articles should not exceed 12,000 words. |
English will remain the primary language of the journal. But articles in Arabic, Persian, Tamazight (Berber), Turkish, or Urdu, as well as French, German, or Spanish, will also be published from time to time. The emphasis upon articles in various languages, including especially the major Middle Eastern and North African languages, reflects the editors’ intentions to do as much as they can to introduce hitherto unknown or scarcely known indigenous scholars to European/American academic circles. Articles in one or another of the indigenous languages of the Middle East and North Africa will be accompanied by a complete English translation or a comprehensive English abstract. Review articles are by invitation only. All contributions must be submitted in triplicate, in revised, publishable form, word-processed on one side of the page, double-spaced, and with standard margins on the sides, tops, and bottoms. Additionally, all contributions must be submitted on an IBM-compatible disk. Microsoft Word application (versions 7.0 or above) must be used. Contributions sent electronically as attachments will not be accepted. Rejected manuscripts and disks will be returned only upon request by ordinary mail, unless the cost of airmail postage is paid in advance.
The
editors will not hold themselves responsible for the loss of manuscripts or
disks. Contributors should hold duplicates of everything submitted. All
quotations and references should be verified before the fact. Notes to articles
should appear as endnotes on a separate page at the end of the article proper.
Works cited should be contained in the endnotes and not on a separate page. The
titles of books, journals, newspapers, magazines, periodicals, songs, films, and
works of art should be in italics. A contributor will receive one complimentary
copy of the issue of the journal in which his or her work appears.
The
Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies will
be international in scope and give special consideration to submissions written
in languages of the Middle East and North Africa. Discussion of all aspects of
cultural and intellectual studies, and in relation to all historical periods
since the rise of Islam, are invited. The editors welcome, more particularly,
multidisciplinary, transnational approaches, the study of neglected and/or
marginalized subjects, and the re-evaluation of accepted wisdom.
The
Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies will
be published at Binghamton University of the State University of New York (SUNY), in association with the
Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies and the Middle East and North
Africa (MENA) Program. The general editors are Prof. R. Kevin Lacey (Chair,
Classical and Near Eastern Studies, and Director, Middle East and North Africa [MENA]
Program, Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY 13902-6000) and Prof. Ralph M.
Coury (History Department, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT 06430). The
editors and the Universities do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions
of contributors, and the Universities and/or aforementioned programs thereof do
not hold themselves responsible for the policies and opinions of the editors.
Editorial communications may be submitted to either general editor. Articles and
disks submitted should be addressed to:
Articles to be considered for the first issue of the first volume should be received no later than March 1, 2001.
The
Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies
Attention: Kathy Stanley, MENA
Program Secretary
Binghamton University, LN 2253
Binghamton, New York 13902-6000.
Phone:
(607) 777-4983
email: mena@binghamton.edu