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.

Samples of Recent Reviews:

War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought Murad Idris,
Oxford University Press, New York, 2019, xxi + 330 pp. ISBN: 978-0-190-65803-8
Faizan Akbar Volume 20, Issue 1

Leaving Iberia: Islamic Law and Christian Conquest in North West Africa Jocelyn
Hendrickson, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2021, 432 pp. ISBN: 978-0-
674-24820-5
Carimo Mohomed Volume 20, Issue 2

War and Religion: A Very Short Introduction Jolyon Mitchell and Joshua Rey, Oxford
University Press, Oxford, 2021, i + 117 pp. ISBN: 978-0-198-80321-8
Syed Qasim Abbas Volume 20, Issue 2 

The currently available books (courtesy of our good friends at Brill, Edward Elgar, Palgrave Macmillan, Cambridge University Press, Routledge, Oxford and Ashgate Publishers) are:

Peace and Reconciliation in International and Islamic Law
Kaleem Hussain
ISBN: 978-1527501867
Publisher:  Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Fatwa and the Making and Renewal of Islamic Law
Omer Awass 
ISBN: 9781009260923
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Islamic Finance and Sustainable Development: A Global Framework for Achieving Sustainable Impact Finance
Edited by Mohd Ma'Sum Billah, Rusni Hassan, Razali Haron, Nor Razinah Mohd Zain 
ISBN 9781032743073
Publisher: Routledge

The Global Halal Industry: A Research Companion
Hussain Mohi-ud-Din Qadri
ISBN 9781032579092
Publisher: Routledge

Islamic Law and Society in Indonesia: Corporate Zakat Norms and Practices in Islamic Banks
Alfitri
ISBN9781003183112
Publisher: Routledge

The Future of the International Criminal Court: Reform, Consensus, and Relations with the USA
Iseghohime Daniel Ehighalua
ISBN: 978-1032442044
Publisher: ‎ Routledge

Islamic Law in Circulation, Shafi'i Texts across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean
Mahmood Kooria,
ISBN:9781009106825
Publisher: Cambridge University 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)