Guidelines for Authors
Authors will be required to guarantee that the same manuscript or a similar version has not been submitted to any other journal or publication. If the author wishes to send the article elsewhere before the editor of the Jihat al-Islam has acted on its acceptance, the author should withdraw the article from consideration by Jihat al-Islam.
Manuscript preparation and Style

1) Articles can be submitted in Arabic, English and Urdu and should  not exceed 35-40 pages of typescript. All submissions must   included a 150-200 word abstract. Article must have an   appropriate title and a number of sections. The first section should  include the purpose of the article and methods of the study, the last  section should include a summery and conclusions.

2) Full name(s) of author(s) must be listed, alongwith university of professional affiliation, address, phone/ fax number(s), and e-mail address. Provide a two-three sentence biography that can be used in your article. Current information only.

3) A manuscript must be double spaced, with page numbered consecutively and references (including full biographical notes ) placed as endnotes to the text. References should follow the style of the following examples, with titels italicized and not underlined:
a) Book: Adeeb Khalid, The Politics of Muslim Cultural Refore: Jadidism in Central Asia (Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2000), p.78.

b) Chapter: Antonie Wessels, “Some Bibilical Considerations Relevant ot the Encounter Between Traditions,” in Christioan Muslim Encounters, eds.Y.Y. Haddad and W.Z. Haddad
 (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1995), pp.54-64.

c) Journal Article: Asma Afsaruddin, “Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership and Its Modern Implications,” American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 20:2(2003): 80-94.

d) Unpublished work/ Dissertation: Effendy Bahtiar, “Islam and the State: The Transformation fo Political Ideas and Practices in Indonesia”, (Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 1994), pp.100-102.

e) Cite all bibliographical information in endnotes. When the book or journal article is cited for the first time, provide full information: full name(s) of the author(s), title of the source, place of publication, publishing company, date of publication and the specific page you are citing. For subsequent citations of the same source, list the author's last name, as abbreviated form of the title, and the relevant page number(s). Do not use footnotes or a biography.

Arabic words should be transliterated according to the style in Jihat al-Islam, which is based on that used by Islamic Studies(Islamabad).
We prefer that you may send two hard copies of your article alongwith an electronic copy on a diskette.

Editorial Correspondence should be addressed to:
Muhammad Abdullah
Faculty of Islamic Studies, (Quaid-e-Azam Campus),
University of the Punjab,Lahore.-54000, Pakistan.
E-mail: jihat_al_islam@yahoo.com

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