General Call for Papers
All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications. IJIA does not charge publication fees.
The International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) is soliciting manuscripts by scholars of built environments from Islamic contexts worldwide. Founded in 2012 and issued bi-annually, IJIA publishes peer-reviewed articles on architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, and urban design and planning from all chronologies, up to and including the twenty-first century. Inclusive and interdisciplinary, the journal emphasizes the detailed analysis of the practical, historical, and theoretical aspects of architecture, with a focus on design and its reception. Papers that explore architecture from related disciplinary perspectives, such as art, history, art history, design history, archaeology, anthropology, spirituality, religion, and economics, are also welcome. The journal includes historical inquiries of global and regional issues, drawing on diverse archival materials, as well as essays that involve critical practices related to historical and contemporary architecture throughout the Islamic world. The journal aims to foster dialogue among practitioners and scholars, and articles that bridge the academic-practitioner divide are highly encouraged.
IJIA publishes articles that traverse geographic, temporal, and disciplinary divides, revealing the profound diversity of architectural cultures and practices premised on a broad definition of ‘Islamic’ architecture. Through the journal we understand and position Islamic architecture as a key player in the study of non-canonical architectures, equally formative in global discourses on modernity and the built environment. To this end, the journal rejects the premise that Islamic art, architecture, and urbanism are essentially ‘premodern’ or ‘historical’. It includes recent, ‘modern’ or ‘contemporary’, practices of Islamic art, architecture, and urbanism, reaching beyond the field’s ‘traditional’ scope. Regardless of the time period, IJIA features relevant, intertextual, and critical scholarship that raises urgent, global, and contemporary issues.
IJIA provides an interdisciplinary platform for research on architectural history and contemporary practice that challenges the dominant narratives about Islamic architecture. It particularly opens a space for emerging scholars, including advanced doctoral students and authors beyond Euro-American academia, and for scholarship that focuses on marginalized geographies. Since its inception, IJIA has embodied, in the make-up of its editorial team and in its editorial practice, efforts to redefine theoretical and structural constraints within both the field of architectural history and the world of academia more broadly. Members of the editorial team are scattered across the globe, situated within very different institutional frameworks, and represent a broad array of disciplinary expertise.
IJIA publishes both online and in print, and is indexed with Scopus and the Web of Science’s Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) as well as the following indexes: Architectural Periodicals Index (API), Archnet, Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, British Humanities Index (BHI), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Contemporary Science Association (CSA), Danish Bibliometric Research Indicator (BFI), Design and Applied Art Index (DAAI), EBSCO, EBSCO: Art Source, European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE), European Reference Index for the Humanities (ERIH), Index Copernicus, Index Islamicus, International Bibliography of Art (IBA), International Bibliography of Book Reviews in Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences (IBR), International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences (IBZ), Net Scientific Journals (NSJ), Norwegian Publication Indicator (NPI), Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, SciTech Collection, Technology Journals, The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), UGC-CARE, and Ulrich's Periodicals Directory.
Manuscripts, in English, are welcome at any time and subject to a rigorous blind peer review process. All articles submitted should be original work and must not be under consideration by other publications. For more information, please visit the journal’s website: https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture.
IJIA is now soliciting manuscripts in the following categories:
- Design in Theory – DiT manuscripts focus on the history, theory and critical analyses of architecture, urban planning and design and landscape architecture. Essays submitted should be a minimum of 5000 words but no more than 8000 words. (Notes are included in the word count.)
- Design in Practice – DiP manuscripts focus on the practice of architecture, planning and landscape design as well as pedagogy. It is preferential that DiP papers address contextual and/or conceptual issues, analysis or critique of proposals, design and construction processes or built projects. Submissions may also include practitioner reflections on lessons learned but should avoid purely descriptive content. Manuscripts should range from 3500 to 5000 words.
- Book, Media and Exhibition reviews – For those interested in writing book/media/exhibition reviews for IJIA, please submit your CV and your areas of expertise and interest and the books/media/exhibition you wish to review to the Reviews Editor: ijiareviews@gmail.com for consideration. Unsolicited book reviews will not be accepted. Generally, the length of the reviews should not exceed 1000 words for a one-book review essay and 1800 words for an essay that reviews multiple books.
- Conference, Conference Panel, and Seminar Précis – IJIA will publish a record of seminars and conferences that focus exclusively or partially on the latest research and findings in Islamic art, architecture, design, and urbanism, including issues in architectural and urban development, history, and theory. This directive is increasingly important with the growing globalization of such events and the geographically dispersed nature of our readership. Preference will be given to conferences that take place outside of Europe and North America and those that will not be documented with a publication. Précis are written by an organizer of or participant in the event in order to present an overview and analysis of topics treated and the issues taken up, but moreover to provide a space for critical reflection on the event's proceedings. Conference, conference panel, and seminar précis should not exceed 1000 words.
- Letters to the Editor - Letters and comments on articles and reviews published, editorial themes and topics should be addressed and sent to the Editor of the journal. Send letters to ijia@intellectbooks.com.
Email the editors at ijia@intellectbooks.com to submit a manuscript or for any additional questions or information.
Please include the following with any manuscript submission:
A Title Page with the following
A concise and informative title. The full names and affiliations of all authors; a 3–4 sentence bio on each author (with a maximum of 100 words per bio). The full postal address, telephone number, and e-mail address of the corresponding author(s).
All e-mail and postal addresses must be valid for at least a year from time of submission.
Abstract and Keywords on page 2. This page should include the following:
- An abstract: an overview of no more than 200 words, summarizing the significant points of the article.
- Six keywords or two-word phrases defining the article should be included for indexing references to facilitate a reader's search. All keywords should be in lower case unless they are proper nouns or names.
- The word count for the full text, i.e. the body of text and all notes should be included.
Special Issue Call for Papers
There are no Special Issue calls for the journal at this time.
