Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam

Guidelines for authors

These guidelines are meant to assist you in preparing your paper for publication in Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam. Following them will ensure a smooth process of peer-review, production, and publication. Please adhere to the guidelines so that your paper matches the journal’s requirements. Please submit your paper in a Word for Windows format and PC compatible (please attach special fonts if used).

Please send your submission to msjsai@mail.huji.ac.il.

General information

Papers will be subject to double-blind peer-review by appropriate members of the Editorial Board or external evaluators selected at the Editor’s discretion. This means that manuscript authors do not know who the reviewers are, and that reviewers do not know the names of the authors. This process usually takes up to three or four months. We will let you know whether your paper was accepted, rejected, or requires further revision. When submitting the revised version, please indicate your changes clearly and refer to the reviewers’ comments in detail.

Paper submission preparation

We do not impose strict word length limits, but request that articles should be no more than approximately 15,000 words (including footnotes, tables, and captions).

Abstracts should be 150–200 words. Please include 5–7 keywords.

Please submit your paper in a Word for Windows format and PC compatible (please attach special fonts if used), accompanied by a PDF version identical to the Word file.

All text (body, footnotes, and bibliography) should be double spaced.

Please delete all identifying or personal information from the submitted paper (including file properties and info). Your name should not appear in the title, body, or notes of the manuscript; cite works by yourself in the third person.

In case you want to include acknowledgments or thanks, you can do so during the first round of proofs.

Details of all funding sources should be given in the first footnote.

In general, JSAI follows the guidelines of the Chicago Manual of Style (17^th edition).

If your paper includes images, illustrations, pictures, etc., that are not your own work, please check their copyright status. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain and clear all copyright related issues for such materials.

Please send all images and other graphical data in separate files. You may also include them in your paper as placement indicators, or you may include a written marker: [fig. 1 / table 1 / picture 1 here] at the required place.

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Final paper preparation

Congratulations! Your paper was approved for publication in JSAI! Please follow these guidelines when preparing your revised paper for final submission:

Indicate clearly the changes you have made in response to the reviewers’ comments (either in a separate letter or with comments in the file itself).

Under the title, write your full name, followed by academic affiliation. If you are unaffiliated, please write “Independent scholar” instead.

TITLE

Jane Doe

University of Somewhere

Include any thanks, acknowledgements, etc. in the first footnote (which will be unnumbered and marked with an asterisk).

Please make sure that the final version of your paper conforms to JSAI style and guidelines. A final version that does not follow the guidelines laid out in this style sheet, will be returned to you for correction, which may delay the publication of your paper.

You will receive at least one set of proofs before publication, in order to eliminate as much as possible typos and slight errors. Please make sure to carefully read the proofs and indicate clearly whether you approve of the final version prior to publication.

Citations and quotes

Quotations from the Qurʾān: Please specify only sūra and āya number:

Qurʾān 33:3

When citing excerpts from a source, the translation should precede the transliteration, which should be placed in parentheses:

“Have no doubts concerning your wife Maryam” (lā tartab bi-ḥalīlatika Maryam)

Dates

Please supply both hijrī and Common Era dates (marked with BCE and CE). If only a hijrī date is given, it should be followed by AH:

191/807 or 191 AH

Transliteration

Transliteration should be full and consistent throughout the article. See the full transliteration table below.

Please note the following:

For Arabic

No word-initial hamzas: al-amr

No sun letters: al-nūr

Compound names with Allāh are in general written as two words: ʿAbd Allāh

Contraction of al-: wa-ʼl-daftar, bi-ʼl-daftar, but li-l-bayt, fī al-bayt

Tāʾ marbūṭa is rendered -a: dawla; when in construct, it is rendered -at: dawlat al-nās. After a long vowel it is rendered -āt: ṣalāt

For Persian

Eżāfa is transliterated -i after consonants; -yi after vowels.

The construct خوا should be transliterated kh^vā.

Book reviews

When writing a book review, please cite at the top of the review the following details:

Author’s full name. Full title of the book under review. City: publisher, year of publication. Number of pages. ISBN number.

• James R. Russell. Armenian and Iranian studies. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. 1462 pp. + xxix. ISBN 0-935411-19-4.

References and bibliography

The system used is that in which items are abbreviated in the footnotes throughout the article and written out in full in a bibliographical list at the end of the article. Please abbreviate all references in the footnotes in the following manner:

• Stern, Studies, pp. 23–37. Al-Jabartī, ʿAjāʾib al-āthār, vol. 2, pp. 43–45.
• Lev, Chipman, and Niessen, “Chicken and chicory are good for you,” p. 340.
• Shinar, “Mawlid celebrations”, p. 375.

A complete bibliographical list must appear at the end of the article. The bibliography is arranged alphabetically; an initial a, an, the, or al- is ignored in the alphabetizing. Multiple entries by the same author are  arranged alphabetically (not chronologically). Please compile the list according to the following guidelines:

Book

Author’s last name, author’s first name. Book title. [Editor’s name.] [No. of vols.] City, year of publication.

• Al-Jabartī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. ʿAjāʾib al-āthār fī al-tarājim wa-’l-akhbār. Shmuel Moreh, ed. 5 vols. Jerusalem, 2013.
• Stern, Samuel M. Studies in early Ismāʿīlism. Jerusalem, 1983.
• Yāqūt. Muʿjam al-buldān. Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, ed. 6 vols. Leipzig, 1866–1873.
• Al-Zubayr b. Bakkār. Al-Akhbār al-muwaffaqiyyāt. Sāmī Makkī al-ʿĀnī, ed. Beirut: ʿĀlam al-Kutub, 1996/1416.

An article in a journal

Author’s last name, author’s first name. “Article’s title.” Journal’s Title issue number (year of publication in parentheses): page numbers (numerals only).

• Kister, Meir J. “Some reports concerning al-Tāʾif.” JSAI 1 (1979): 1–18.
• Lev, Efraim, Leigh Chipman, and Friedrich Niessen. “Chicken and chicory are good for you: a unique family prescription from the Cairo Genizah (T-S NS223.82-83 ).” JSAI 35 (2008): 335–352.
• Kilpatrick, Hilary. “Autobiography and classical Arabic literature.” Journal of Arabic Literature 22 (1991): 1–20.

An article in a book

Author’s last name, author’s initial(s). “Title of the article.” In editor’s initial(s) last name, ed. Book’s title. City, year, page numbers.

• Shinar, Pessah. “Traditional and reformist mawlid celebrations in the Maghrib.” In Myriam Rosen-Ayalon, ed. Studies in memory of Gaston Wiet. Jerusalem, 1977, pp. 371–413.
• Humphreys, R. Stephen. “Qurʾānic myth and narrative structure in early Islamic historiography.” In Frank M. Clover and R. Stephen Humphreys, eds. Tradition and innovation in late antiquity. Madison, 1989, pp. 271–290.

Book consisting of collected articles

Editor’s last name, editor’s first name, [additional editors,] ed(s). Collection’s title. City, year of publication.

• Ben-Shammai, Haggai, Shaul Shaked, and Sarah Stroumsa, eds. Exchange and transmission across cultural boundaries: philosophy, mysticism and science in the Mediterranean world. Jerusalem, 2013.

Encyclopaedia entry

Author’s last name, author’s first name. “Entry’s title.” Encyclopaedia’s title, s.v.

• Hawting, Gerald R. “Taḥannutth.” EI², s.v.

Bibliography example

Humphreys, “Qurʾānic myth and narrative structure”

Humphreys, R. Stephen. “Qurʾānic myth and narrative structure in early Islamic historiography.” In Frank M. Clover and R. Stephen Humphreys, eds. Tradition and innovation in late antiquity. Madison, 1989, pp. 271–290.

Al-Jabartī, ʿAjāʾib al-āthār

Al-Jabartī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. ʿAjāʾib al-āthār fī al-tarājim wa-’l-akhbār. Shmuel Moreh, ed. 5 vols. Jerusalem, 2013.

Kister, “Some reports”

Kister, Meir J. “Some reports concerning al-Tāʾif.” JSAI 1 (1979): 1–18.

Lev, Chipman, and Niessen, “Chicken and chicory are good for you”

Lev, Efraim, Leigh Chipman, and Friedrich Niessen. “Chicken and chicory are good for you: a unique family prescription from the Cairo Genizah (T-S NS223.82-83 ).” JSAI 35 (2008): 335–352.

Shinar, “Mawlid celebrations”

Shinar, Pessah. “Traditional and reformist mawlid celebrations in the Maghrib.” In Myriam Rosen-Ayalon, ed. Studies in memory of Gaston Wiet. Jerusalem, 1977, pp. 371–413.

Stern, Studies

Stern, Samuel M. Studies in early Ismāʿīlism. Jerusalem, 1983.

Yāqūt. Muʿjam al-buldān

Yāqūt. Muʿjam al-buldān. Ferdinand Wüstenfeld, ed. 6 vols. Leipzig, 1866–1873.