Editor-in-Chief Editor AbdulHamid AbuSulayman Katherine Bullock Assistant Editor Layla Sein Copy Editor Jay Willoughby Book Review Editor Jasmin Zine Editorial Board Mumtaz Ahmad Sulayman S. Nyang Anas al-Shaikh Ali Dilnawaz Siddiqui M. A. Muqtedar Khan International Advisory Board Ibrahim Abu-Rabi Khurshid Ahmad Akbar Ahmed Manzoor Alam Taha J. al-Alwani Zafar Ishaq Ansari Khaled Blankinship Charles Butterworth Louis J. Cantori Ahmad Davutoglu Abdulwahab M. Elmessiri John L. Esposito Mehdi Golshani M. Kamal Hassan Aziza Y. al-Hibri Mohammad H. Kamali Enes Karic Clovis Maksoud Ali A. Mazrui Seyyed Hossein Nasr Ibrahim Ahmed Omer Mustapha Pasha James P. Piscatori Anne Sofie Roald Tamara Sonn Antony Sullivan Sayyid M. Syeed Ahmad Yusuf A joint publication of: The International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) & The Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS) Mailing Address: All correspondence should be addressed to the Editor at: AJISS, P. O. Box 669, Herndon, VA 20172-0669 USA Phone: 703-471-1133 • Fax: 703-471-3922 • Email:
[email protected] http://www.amss.net/AJISS VOLUME 21 SUMMER 2004 NUMBER 3 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ISLAMIC SOCIAL SCIENCES Special Issue: Neo-Orientalism and Islamophobia: Post-9/11 ASSOCIATION OF MUSLIM SOCIAL SCIENTISTS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ISLAMIC THOUGHT Note to Contributors The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS) is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world: anthropology, economics, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam. Submissions are subject to a blind peer review process. Submissions must conform to the following guidelines: • Be the author’s original research. Simultaneous submissions to other journals, as well as previous publication in any format and language, are not accepted. • Be between 7,000 and 10,000 words in length; book reviews and conference reports must be between 800-1,000 words; • Include a 250 word (max) abstract; • Cite all bibliographical information in endnotes. Provide full biographical information (e.g., full name(s) of author(s), complete title of the source, place of publication, publishing company, date of publication, and the specific page being cited) when the source is mentioned for the first time. For subsequent citations of the same source, list the author’s last name, abbreviate the title, and give the relevant page number(s). Do not use footnotes or a bibliography; • Avoid putting the author’s name in headers or footers, and avoid any personal references in the body or the endnotes that might betray their identity to referees; • Include a cover sheet with the author’s full name, current university or professional affiliation, mailing address, phone/fax number(s), and current e-mail address. Provide a twosentence biography; • Transliterate Arabic words according to the style in AJISS, which is based upon that used by the Library of Congress; • All submissions should be in MS-Word, double-spaced, and on single-sided numbered pages; • AJISS does not return manuscripts to authors. AJISS is indexed in the following publications: a) U.M.I. (16 mm microfilm, 35 mm microfilm, 105 mm microfiche for article copies of 1990 issues and after); b) Religion Index One: Periodicals and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (1987 and after). These indexes are part of the ATLA Religion Data-base, available on the WilsonDisc CD-ROM from H. W. Wilson Co., and online via WilsonLine, BRS Information Technologies, and Dialog Information Services; c) Public Affairs Information Service (December 1