Call for Papers

Forum for Islamic-Theological Studies (FITS) is a peer-reviewed, international journal devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Islamic Theology and Islamic Religious Education. FITS aims to provide an open space for academic dialogue within and across disciplinary and confessional boundaries to advance scholarship and debates in the various sub-disciplines of Islamic theology and religious education as well as in the sociology of religion as concerns 'Islam' and Muslims.

Submissions of research articles (50.000 to 70.000 characters incl. spaces), reviews (max. 8.500 characters incl. spaces), or conference reports (max. 13.000 characters incl. spaces) are accepted in either German or English. Submitted papers are subject to a peer review process based on mutual anonymity ('double-blind’).

Papers are invited in the following areas:

 − Qur'anic Studies and Qur'anic Exegesis (tafsīr)
 − Hadith Studies
 − Sufism
 − Islamic Legal Theory and Hermeneutics (fiqh)
 − Islamic Ethics
 − Islamic Philosophy
 − Systematic-Discursive Theology (kalām)
 − Constructive Theological Topics (gender, ecology, etc.)  
 −Islamic Religious Education
 −Sociology of Religion on Muslims in Europe or the West
 − Contributions to current discourses on Islam and Muslims in Europe
 − Islam and Pluralism, Islam in Europe
 − Interreligious Studies
 − History of Islamic scholars and concepts

We cordially invite you to submit articles on the above topics.

The journal is published twice a year. Contributions can be submitted until March 01 and October 01.

If you have any questions, please contact forum@uibk.ac.at.

 

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

The editorial team