Formal Requirements:
Articles should be in Word format with the following settings:
- top, bottom, left, right margins: 2.5 cm;
- Times New Roman 12 pt, one and a half spaced;
- footnotes: 10 pt, single-spaced
Hadīth and Sīra Studies welcomes Turkish, Arabic, English, German and French articles. Although there is no upper limits for the length of articles, reviews of books, symposiums and conferences should not exceed 2000 words.
Manuscripts should contain an abstract both in the original language of the text and in English (150- 200 words) as well as keywords (max. 10). Manuscripts should also include a separate bibliography.
Manuscripts should be grammatically correct and conform to the rules of punctuation of the language used. Spelling should be consistent throughout.
Arabic words in transliteration should be italicized for English, German, and French articles. For transliteration authors should follow the standard adopted by the Library
of Congress, which is accessible online:
https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/arabic.pdf
Bibliographic References:
Full bibliographic reference should be given upon first mention. Repeated references should include only last name, shortened title, and page number.
ibid. can be used to refer to the work cited in the previous note. Authors should not use op. cit., idem., or loc. cit.
Book:
Footnote:
Nabia Abbott, Studies in Arabic Literary Papyri II: Qur’ānic Commentary and Tradition (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1967), 33.
Abbott, Studies in Arabic Literary Papyri II, 33.
Ignaz Goldziher, The Ẓāhirīs: Their Doctrine and their History, A Contribution to the History of Islamic Theology, tr. Wolfgang Behn (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 20.
Goldziher, The Ẓāhirīs, 20.
Bibliography entry:
Abbott, Nabia, Studies in Arabic Literary Papyri II: Qur’ānic Commentary and Tradition, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1967.
Goldziher, Ignaz, The Ẓāhirīs: Their Doctrine and their History, A Contribution to the History of Islamic Theology, tr. Wolfgang Behn, Leiden: Brill, 2008.
Book with multiple authors:
Footnote:
Scott Lash and John Urry, Economies of Signs & Space (London: Sage Publications, 1994), 241.
Lash and Urry, Economies of Signs & Space, 241.
Bibliography entry:
Lash, Scott and John Urry, Economies of Signs & Space, London: Sage Publications, 1994.
Book chapter:
Footnote:
Sean W. Anthony, “Crime and Punishment in Early Medina: The Origins of a Maghāzī Tradition”, Analysing Muslim Traditions: Studies in Legal, Exegetical, and Maghāzī Hadīth, ed. Harald Motzki (Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2010), 385.
Anthony, “Crime and Punishment in Early Medina”, 385.
Bibliography entry:
Anthony, Sean W., “Crime and Punishment in Early Medina: The Origins of a Maghāzī Tradition”, Analysing Muslim Traditions: Studies in Legal, Exegetical, and Maghāzī Hadīth, ed. Harald Motzki, Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2010, 385-465.
Journal article:
Footnote:
Harald Motzki, “The Prophet and the Cat”, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 22 (1998): 18.
Motzki, “The Prophet and the Cat”, 18.
Bibliography entry:
Motzki, Harald, “The Prophet and the Cat”, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, 22 (1998): 18-83.
Encyclopedia entry:
Footnote:
Michael Lecker, “Al-Zuhrī,” Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI2), Leiden: Brill, 2002, 9: 565.
Lecker, “Al-Zuhrī,” 565.
Wim Raven, “Biography of the Prophet”, Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/biography-of-the-prophet-COM_23716?s.num=0&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.encyclopaedia-of-islam-3&s.q=biography (accessed March 16 2019).
Raven, “Biography of the Prophet”.
Bibliography entry:
Lecker, Michael, “Al-Zuhrī,” Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI2), Leiden: Brill, 2002, 9: 565–66.
Raven, Wim, “Biography of the Prophet”, Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/biography-of-the-prophet-COM_23716?s.num=0&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.encyclopaedia-of-islam-3&s.q=biography (accessed March 16 2019).
Thesis or dissertation:
Footnote:
Krisztina Szilágyi, After The Prophet’s Death: Christian-Muslim Polemic and The Literary Images of Muhammad (PhD diss., Princeton University, 2014), 67.
Szilágyi, After The Prophet’s Death, 67.
Bibliography entry:
Szilágyi, Krisztina, After The Prophet’s Death: Christian-Muslim Polemic and The Literary Images of Muhammad (PhD diss., Princeton University, 2014).
Website content:
Edward W. Said, “Orientalism: An Exchange,” New York Review of Books, 12 Ağustos 1982, https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1982/08/12/orientalism-an-exchange/ (accessed October 26 2017).
When the author is unknown:
“Qur’anic Verses related to Ramadan”, http://www.lastprophet.info/qur-anic-verses-related-to-ramadan (accessed May 21, 2019).