CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWS

Book Review

Manchester Journal of Transnational Islamic Law & Practice

ISSN 2633-6626

CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWS

 
We would like to invite reviewers to review a number of recently published books that may be of interest to the Islamic Law scholars and researchers. Books will be allocated for review on a first-come-first-served basis and you would have about one month to carry out the review. If you are interested in reviewing one of these books, please email Dr Khaled Bashir (khaled.bashir@abdn.ac.uk) which book you are interested in reviewing and we will arrange for a copy (paper or online format) to be sent to you.
 
We also invite readers to propose books that they wish to review. Books should be rooted in scholarly analysis and critique and/or empirical study of Islamic law and can be targeted at practitioners or written primarily for scholars in the field of Islamic law. Kindly send the titles to Dr Khaled Bashir.
 
Submission Guidelines
• Manuscripts should be in Microsoft Word format • Manuscripts should be double-spaced (including quotations, excerpts, and footnotes) • To facilitate our anonymous review process, submissions are to be prepared for anonymous review. Include a cover page with the author’s name, affiliation, title, and email address. • Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and when used should follow OSCOLA referencing guide. Deadline for submission of review for the forthcoming Issue.
 
Deadline
Our publication timelines are the 1st of January, April, July, and October every year. Please send us your review two months before each date so we can include it in the subsequent Issue.
 
Recommended Format
A good book review provides a quick overview of the main ideas in the text. Also helpful is an account of how the book fits into, or engages in, an on-going philosophical debate. While not required, a compare and contrast approach can be useful to demonstrate both the main ideas and unique positioning of a book. An overview for a book review is good when it is broad and concise, including all and only the main points of the text. A good book review evaluates the text and deploys an argument regarding how successful the book is in achieving its own goals. This may, but need not, involve substantive disagreement with the argumentation found in the text. Many reviews will be best when they: (i) begin with any important background information (e.g. author biography); (ii) provide a summary of the contents of the book; and (iii) end with the reviewer’s evaluations.
 
The currently available books (courtesy of our good friends at Brill, Edward Elgar, Palgrave Macmillan, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Oxford and Ashgate Publishers) are:
 
Political Theology and Islam: From the Birth of Empire to the Modern State
by Paul L. Heck
ISBN: 9780268207359
Publisher: Notre Dame University Press
 
A Continuity of Shari‘a Political Authority And Homicide In The Nineteenth Century
by Brian Wright
ISBN 978 1 649 03262 1
 
Decolonizing Human Rights
By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim,
ISBN:9781108264921
 
The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom
by Sahar F. Aziz (Author), John Esposito (Foreword)
ISBN: 9780520382299
 
Series: Mediterranean Reconfigurations, Volume: 03
Eloy Martín-Corrales
ISBN: 978-90-04-44376-1
Publisher: Brill
 
Jocelyn Hendrickson
ISBN-13: 978-0674248205
 
The Humanitarian Fix: Navigating Civilian Protection in Contemporary Wars
Joe Cropp
ISBN: 9781000288292
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
 
Peace and Reconciliation in International and Islamic Law
Kaleem Hussain
Page 3 of 4
ISBN: 978-1527501867
 
The Future of the International Criminal Court: Reform, Consensus, and Relations with the USA
Iseghohime Daniel Ehighalua
ISBN: 978-1032442044
Publisher: Routledge
 
The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom
Sahar F. Aziz (Author), John L Esposito (Foreword)
ISBN: 9780520382299
 
Peace and Reconciliation in International and Islamic Law
Kaleem Hussain
ISBN13: 978-1-5275-0186-7
 
Islamic Law in Circulation, Shafi'i Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean
Mahmood Kooria,
ISBN:9781009106825
 
Islamic Criminal Law in the Modern World: Studies in the Legal Tradition of the Islamic World
Mir-Hossein Kazemzadeh
ISBN: 9781108837812
Publisher: Brill
 
Islamic Law: An Introduction
Mohamad Akram Laldin
ISBN: 9833855032
Publisher: IIUM Press
 
 
Other Titles:
As suggested above the list is not exclusive. Please feel free to suggest other books to the Book Review
Editor by emailing Dr Khaled Bashir at (khaled.bashir@abdn.ac.uk)