CFP - The International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA)

IJIA Call For Papers

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, 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.

For more information, please visit the journal’s website: https://www.intellectbooks.com/international-journal-of-islamic-architecture.