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Call for Publications Theme: Islamic Law Subtitle: Society, Culture and State Publication: Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society Deadline: 1.7.2012 __________________________________________________ We invite papers that deal with the intersection between Islamic law and society particularly as it pertains to such issues as: the status of women and/or family law, property rights, land tenure, criminal law, finance/economy, and inter-faith relations. Papers from all periods of history and all disciplines are welcome, as are papers that examine the impact of Islamic law in western contexts. Questions that are of particular interest include (but are not limited to) the following: - How is the law a 'living law'? To what extent have legal thinkers integrated custom into the lawmaking process? - To what extent has the law provided an arena for individuals of different religions to negotiate and/or settle their disputes? - What sort of relationship has existed between the various schools of law and have legal thinkers drawn upon schools of law other than their own in formulating laws? - To what extent have Western legal systems accommodated Islamic law? What impact has this had on notions of citizenship and minority rights? - How have state law/secular law and shari'a overlapped and/or informed one another in the lawmaking process? How has this relationship evolved over time? Guest Editor: Sabrina Joseph, Zayed University, Dubai. Please submit your paper (6,000 to 10,000) in MS Word format to [email protected] by July 1, 2012. Submissions should include a cover letter to the editor describing the work in approximately one hundred words. Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society promotes and publishes scholarship from the humanities and the social sciences, and their intersections on topics related to the encounters of cultures, intellectual traditions, and social and political systems across space and time. The journal seeks a critical understanding of the transcultural and transnational factors that shape such encounters – and by extension, the world as we know it. The editors encourage contributions that explicitly link the humanities and the social sciences and engage their different methodologies. Regular special volumes will offer stimulating, focused engagement with specific historical, political, cultural, social or theoretical questions. Encounters will be peer-reviewed and published biannually. ISSN 2075-048X. Contact: Dr. Sabrina Joseph P.O. Box 19282 Zayed University Dubai United Arab Emirates Email: [email protected] Web: http://encounters.zu.ac.ae __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
