Check out our Journal Roundups for the latest articles in Islamic studies. This is the thirty-nine iteration to be published and the Fall 2020 edition is now online. The Fall 2020 edition currently has issues from sixty-five journals in a wide variety of subjects and disciplines and will be revised as more journals announce their Summer issues.
The journal roundup project covers over 90 English language journals in a variety of disciplines related to Islamic Studies, providing the table of contents for each journal as a tool for researchers, academics, students, and those generally interested in the field of Islamic Studies. We include only articles; book reviews can be found on the journal sites. Please let us know if we have missed any journals or if you have questions at journals@themaydan.com. [Curated by Aysenur Sonmez Kara].
- Afghanistan
- Al-Bayan: Journal of Qur’an and Hadith Studies
- American Journal of Islam and Society
- Arab Law Quarterly (Two Issues, Issue 1-2- Special Issue: Islamic Finance and Contemporary Challenges)
- Arab Studies Journal
- Arab Studies Quarterly
- Arabica: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies (Three Issues)
- Asian Affairs
- The Australian Journal of Islamic Studies
- British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Two Issues)
- Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
- Critical Muslim(Three Issues)
- Contemporary Arab Affairs
- Contemporary Islam
- Contemporary Levant
- Culture and Religion
- Der Islam
- Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World (Special Issue on Gender and Judging in Muslim Courts: Emerging Scholarship and Debates)
- History of Religions
- Intellectual History of the Islamicate World (Special Issue: The Arabic Literary Genizot beyond Denominational Borders—Part 2)
- International Journal of Middle East Studies
- International Journal of Persian Literature
- Iranian Studies
- Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations
- Islamic Africa
- Islamic Law and Society
- Israel Affairs
- Jerusalem Quarterly (Special Issue – Home and House (Part 1): Materialities and Subjectivities
- Journal of Abbasid Studies (Special Issue: Organizing and Finding Knowledge in the Fourth/Tenth Century)
- Journal of the American Academy of Religion
- Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Journal of Arabian Studies
- Journal of Asian and African Studies (Two Issues)
- Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
- Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
- Journal of Humanity and Society
- Journal of Islamic Ethics
- Journal of Islamic Manuscripts (Special Issue: Manuscripts of the Qurʾān 1)
- The Journal of the Middle East and Africa
- Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies
- Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs
- Journal of Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society
- Journal of Near Eastern Studies
- The Journal of North African Studies
- Journal of Sufi Studies
- Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue (Special Issue: “Translating Sacred Texts in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia”)
- Middle East Critique
- The Middle East Journal
- Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (Two Issues, Issue 2: Special Issue: Cosmopolitanism in the Arab World)
- Middle Eastern Studies
- Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World
- Nazariyat: Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences (Special Issue: Metaphysical Realism)
- Oriens: Journal of Philosophy, Theology and Science in Islamic Societies
- Politics, Religion & Ideology (Special Issue on Gender and the Far Right)
- Religion Compass (Three Issues)
- Sociology of Islam (Special issue: Halal Markets in non-Muslim Secular Societies: Halal as Brand, Halal as practice)
- Studia Islamica (Special Issue: Bulletin critique des Studia Islamica / Critical Bulletin of Studia Islamica)
- Turkish Historical Review
- ReOrient
- Journal of Palestine Studies
The many lives of a medieval Muslim scholar: An introduction to the life and times of Minhaj Siraj al-Din Juzjani, 1193–1260 CE By: Jawan Shir Rasikh
A glimpse from the ancient world: What a gold necklace from Tillya-tepe reveals about opium in Afghanistan By: Sara Peterson
Cultural imperialism on £10 a day: The short, tumultuous history of the British Institute of Afghan Studies 1972–1982 By: David Fleming
Mourning Imam Husayn in Karbala and Kabul: The political meanings of ʿAshura in Afghanistan By: Robert D. Crews
Evaluating the Accuracy and Consistency in Rendering Qurʾanic Terms with Overlapping Meanings into English By: Linda S Al-Abbas and Ahmad S. Haider
Educational Peace Theory in the Holy Qurʾan By: Muneer Jebreel Karama and Nada Ali Khater
Revisiting the Severe Classification of Abū Ḥātim al-Rāzī: an Analysis of Technical Terminology in Ḥadīth Transmitter Criticism By: Ahmad Kamil Bin Jamilin and Muhammad Fawwaz Bin Muhammad Yusoff
Analysis Hadith Al-Ṯurāyya Dan Kaitannya Dengan COVID-19 By: Muhamad Rozaimi Ramle and Mohd Yusof Mohamad
اسم (الرحمن) في القرآن، الدلالة والسياق: دراسة موضوعية By: Muhammad Khazir al-Majali
The Qurʾan and its Study: An Indepth Exploration of Islam’s Sacred Text , written by Adnan Zarzour By: Tauseef Ahmad Parray
Propaedeutics in Practice By: Timothy Gutmann
Islamist Exegesis of Q 3:110 By:Brannon Wheeler
God beyond the Boundary-Stones of Thought By: Abbas Ahsan
Revival from Below By: Ali Altaf Mian
The Value of Classical Islamic Thought for Muslims Today By: Scott Lucas
The UAE and Responsible Finance—Can Responsible Finance Ṣukūk Help the UAE in Fulfilling Its Sustainability Ambitions? By: Edana Richardson
Jordan’s Commitment towards Compulsory and Free Basic Education as a Constitutional Right: An Analytical Field Study By: Ali Mohamed Aldabbas, Kamal Jamal Alawamleh, and Worud Jamal Awamleh
Application of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Qatar v. United Arab Emirates): So Far, So Good? By: Udoka Ndidiamaka Owie
Ambiguity in Insider Trading Regulations: Saudi Arabia as a Case Study By: Yahya A. Alomari
The Role of Intellectual Property Laws in Creating a Favourable Environment for Investment By: Firas Abdel-Mahdi Massadeh and Tariq Abdel Rahman Kameel
Introduction: Islamic Finance and Contemporary Challenges By: M. Kabir Hassan
Economic Systems of Muslims in History By: Murat Çizakça
Sharīʿah-compliant or Sharīʿah-based? The Changing Ethical Discourse of Islamic Finance By: Ryan Calder
The Typewritten Market: Shariʿah-Compliance and Securitisation in the Law of Islamic Finance By: Valentino Cattelan
Flexibility and Sharīʿah Compliance of Islamic Financial Contracts: An Evaluative Framework By: Tareq Moqbel and Habib Ahmed
Murābaḥah Penalty Clause is Ribā in Disguise! The Penalty Clause Questions the Deep-rooted Preference for Literal Interpretation over Substantial Interpretation of Ribā By: Faiza Ismail
Explaining the Modern Transformation of Islamic Legal Contracts: Theoretical and Practical Implications By: Ismail Cebeci
A Conventional and Sharīʿah Analysis of Bitcoin By: M. Kabir Hassan, Mohammad Sydul Karim, and Aishath Muneezac
Different Structure, Neither Debt nor Equity: What Should Be the Approaches for Restructuring Ṣukūk (Islamic Bonds) Default? By: Rafisah Mat Radzi
Sharīʿah Regulation and Supervision of the Iraqi Islamic Banking System By: Shamsalden Aziz Salh and Mark Hyland
The Ideological Deportation of Foreigners and “Local Subjects of Foreign Extraction” in Interwar Egypt By Rim Naguib
“Glitzy” Malls and Coffee Shops: Everyday Places of Belonging and Social Contestation in Dubai
By Rana AlMutawa
On the State’s Education Apparatus: Zionization and Minoritarianism of Druze Consciousness in Israel
By Yusri Khaizran
Displacing Queer Refugee Epistemologies: Dreams of Trespass, Queer Kinship, and the Politics of Miseration By Sima Shakhsari
Mirroring Hybridity: The use of Arab Folk Tradition in Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land and Alia Yunis’s The Night Counter By: Reem M. Hilal
The Naturalization of Orientalism in Herman Melville’s Mardi: Whitewashing Arabian Nights? By: Muna Abd-Rabbo
Feverish Souls: Archives, Identity, and Trauma in Fihris and Ḥiṣn Al-Turāb By: Mahmoud Abdelhamid M. A. Khalifa
Scents of Space: Early Islamic Pilgrimage, Perfume, and Paradise By: Adam Bursi
The Qurʾān Commentaries of Šams al-Dīn al-Ḫuwayyī (583/1193-637/1247) By: Nasr Sarsour and Y. Tzvi Langermann
Michel Chodkiewicz (1929-2020) By: Denis Gril
The exchange of letters in early Sufism: A preliminary study By: Arin Salamah-Qudsi
Baghdad (Mis)represented By: Zainab Rahim
Wanderer By: Hafeez Burhan Khan
Top Ten Synthetic Wonders The List Fieldwork By: Chandrika Parmar
Inner Journeys By: Saimma Dyer
Strangers in a Strange Land By: Robert Irwin
Introduction: To Hell and Back By: Samia Rahman
Mediterranean Death By: Abdel Wahab Yousif
New Territories By: Ebrahim Moosa
Do Visit (Some Of) Our Mosques By: Abdullah Geelah
Istanbul Poems By: Mevlut Ceylan
Assisi By: Ziauddin Sardar
Canada’s Muslims By: Eric Walberg
My Qur’anic Voyage By: Shanon Shah
Invisible Thessaloniki By: Boyd Tonkin
Cuba in the Time of COVID-19 By: Tamanna Rahman
A Stroll Through KL By: C. Scott Jordan
Strands of Kazak Cultures By: Natalya Seitakhmetova
Berlin Exiles By: Amro Ali
Athens’ Concrete Delusions By: Iason Athanasiadis
On Patriarchy By: Shehnaz Haqqani
Consider Others By: Katharina Schmoll
Contextualizing the Palestinian Refugee Camps in the Gaza Strip By: Shadi Saleh
The Geopolitics of the Yemen War during the Corona Pandemic: An Althusserian Approach By: Jude Kadri
The Political Economy of Local Governance in Yemen: Past and Present By: Benoit ChallandJoshua Rogers
Bidding for a Place in the Sun: The Looking-East Policy of the United Arab Emirates By: Shirzad Azad
The Sustainability Turn in UAE–Japan Relations By: Yee-Kuang Heng
The Muslim orphan paradox: Muslim Americans negotiating the Islamic law of adoption By: Nermeen MouftahBeyond consumption: value transformation and the affordance of political Islam in Indonesia By: Ario SetoCentral Asian Women’s contextual politics: the case of Muslim women in Uzbekistan By: Svetlana Peshkova“We Aren’t that type of Muslim”: exploring Islam and music-making in Istanbul By: Banu SenayMurabitat al-Aqsa: the new virgins of Palestinian resistance By: Kenny Schmitt
Khaled Abou El Fadl and Amina Wadud’s (re)politicisation of the mosque and employment of social media as a means of shaping religious identity based on values of progressive Islam By: Sofia Tsourlaki
Ethno-religious socialisation, national culture and the social construction of British Muslim identity By: Riyaz Timol
Sengende Hitze, Eiseskälte oder Mond? Zum Echo zoroastrischer eschatologischer Vorstellungen am Beispiel des koranischen zamharīrBy: Sebastian Bitsch
A Reassessment of the Location of the Mural Paintings in the Caliphal Palace of Samarra By: Fatma Dahmani
Die irdische Schönheit (ḥusn) und die göttliche Schönheit (ǧamāl) By: Renate Jacobi
Jerusalem Mamluk Regional Building Style as Demonstrated at Maqām al-Nabī MūsāBy: Tawfiq Daʿadli
Some Remarks on Ibn Taymiyyaʼs Acquaintance with Imāmī Shīʿism in light of his Minhāj al-sunna al-nabawiyyaBy: Roy Vilozny
Who were the Türkmen of Ottoman and Safavid lands? An overlooked early modern identityBy: Ali Karamustafa
The “National Amnesia” in the Traditional History of IranBy: Gregor Schoeler
Muslim Judges at the Road of Intersection By: Nahda Shehada
Male and Female Judges in Morocco Dealing with Minor Marriages: Towards a Relational Understanding of Family Law By: Nadia Sonneveld
Ḥaḍāna Practices in Tunisia: Between Women’s Rights and the Best Interest of the Child, 1956–2019 By: Maaike Voorhoeve