The Journal for Islamic Studies is a peer-reviewed journal committed to the publication of original research on Islam as culture and civilization. It particularly welcomes work of an interdisciplinary nature that brings together history, religion, politics, culture and law. The Journal has a special focus on Islam in Africa, and on contemporary Islamic Thought. Contributions that display theoretical rigour, especially work that link the particularities of Islamic discourse to the enterprise of knowledge and critique in the humanities and social sciences, will find JIS to be receptive to such submissions. From 2022 JIS is published by UNISA press under the editorial leadership of Prof Auwais Rafudeen
The Journal for Islamic Studies is indexed in the ATLA Religion Database ® a product of the American Theological Library Association, and SAePublications. It is also included in the list of Approved Journals compiled by the Department of Education (South Africa).
Previous Issues
Editor: Auwais Rafudeen
Editor: Andrea Brigaglia
Guest Editor: Abdulkader Tayob
Guest Editor: Laurens de Rooij
Special Issue: Islam and the Politics of Religious Dissent in Northern Nigeria
Editor: Andrea Brigaglia
Performances of Belonging, Difference, and Exclusion in Muslim Africa
Guest Editors: Dorothea Schulz and Tea Virtanen
Guest Editors: Andrea Brigaglia and Ramzi Ben Amara
Vol. 33 - 2013
Thematic issue on Theorising Experience, Subjectivity, and Narrative in Studies of Gender and Islam.
Guest Editors: Sa'diyya Shaikh, Nina Hoel and Gabeba Baderoon
This issue deals with Islamic reform in African contexts, the subject of a Conference organized at UCT in 2011.
Vol.30 - 2010
Features articles on Gender Segregation, Sufi Women's saying on Love, Islamization of Osun State of Nigeria, American Muslim Women Navigating Islamic Divorce and Civil Law
Vol.29 - 2009
Features articles on African Islam, Theology, and Islamism in Malaysia
Thematic Issues
Special Issue: Islam and the Politics of Religious Dissent in Northern Nigeria
Editor: Andrea Brigaglia
Vol.28 - 2008
Reconfiguring Gender Relations in Muslim Africa
Guest Editors: Marloes Janson & Dorothea Schulz
Vol.27 - 2007
Islam & African Muslim Publics
Editor: Abdulkader Tayob
Vol.26 - 2006
Engaged Sufism
Guest Editors: Sa'diyya Shaikh and Scott Kugle
Vol.24 & 25 - 2004/05
Burial Grounds: Sacred Sites and Heritage in Post-Apartheid Cape Town
Guest Editors: Louise Green & Noeleen Murray
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