Advances in the Study of Islam

Focuses explicitly on new, original and creative approaches to understand, analyse and critically revisit Islamic studies

• Highlights both disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approaches to Islamic studies from religious studies, theology, philosophy, law, history, cultural anthropology and linguistics
• Challenges existing paradigms and norms by providing alternatives for the study of Islam
• Pushes the study of Islam to the forefront of larger conversations in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Advances in the Study of Islam will publish cutting-edge research that reflects the long history and geographic breadth of Islam. It seeks to rethink traditional literary canons while simultaneously offering innovative and alternative approaches to push beyond traditional understandings of Islam. The series provides a platform for creative studies spanning:

• Disciplines including religious studies, legal studies, archaeology and anthropology
• Theoretical questions including historical, philological, ethnographic, comparative and redescriptive
• Time periods from late antiquity to the present
• Geographical regions including the so-called Arab World, South Asia, Africa, Iran and the Persian World, Europe and North America

Advisory Board

• Mustafa Alici, Erzincan Binali Yildirim University, Turkey
• Nuha Alshaar, American University of Sharjah, UAE
• Ali S. Asani, Harvard University, USA
• Mushegh Asatryan, University of Calgary, Canada
• Amila Buturović, York University, Canada
• Carool Kersten, King's College London, UK
• Matt Melvin-Koushki, University of South Carolina, USA
• Bilal W. Orfali, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
• Sabine Schmidtke, Princeton University, USA

Write for the series

If you have a proposal suitable for this series we’d love to hear from you.

• Find out more about writing and submitting your book proposal

If you have any questions before submitting, or would like to discuss your ideas, please contact the series editors:

Abbas Aghdassi: aghdassi@um.ac.ir

Aaron W. Hughes: aaron.hughes@rochester.edu

Once you're ready to submit, email your book proposal to:

• Emma House, Commissioning Editor for Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies: emma.house@eup.ed.ac.uk