CFP: Edited Volume on Authority, Agency, & Islam

The book will be focused on offering a deeper insight into the relationship between authority and agency for Muslims and Islam today. The mission for the book is to be one of the leading publications in contemporary Islamic and Muslim studies. The aim is to appeal to a broad audience and be a teaching aid in the area of Religious, Islamic, and Muslim studies.

Recommended topics may include but are not limited to:
Paper proposals to be included may engage the above theme from any perspective appropriate for
this cross-disciplinary book.

• Religious vs. State authority
• Effects of cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism
• Institution-building and citizenship
• Geopolitics, power, and economic interests
• Race and gender
• Authority in a historical perspective (particular interest may go out to the effects that can be
felt in the post-Ottoman, nationalist and post-colonial setting).
• Health and behavioural change through social changes felt by Muslims
• Islam and business (e.g. Islam and financial authority, commodification of Muslims, effects of
marketing, branding, human resource training and motivation, sales, crowdsourcing and
product development)
• Environmental issues
• Islam and Muslims in the news and as journalists, authority of public perception and
reproducible images
• Cross-cultural issues
• Privacy, risk, ethics, and legal issues facing Islam and Muslims domestically or globally

The above list is meant to be illustrative, not exhaustive. Individual papers will be combined to form
thematic but multi-layered approach to the relationship between Authority, Agency and Islam
and/or Muslims.

Submission Procedure
The editors invite papers from diverse disciplines interested in expanding the body of knowledge in
this intriguing area to submit chapters for publication consideration. Individuals interested in
submitting chapters should submit a 300-word abstract in a Microsoft Word or pdf document, with a
short bio, to either laurens.de-rooij@durham.ac.uk or law.ilm@durham.ac.uk by March 22nd, 2015.
Notification of Abstract acceptance will be March 30th, 2015. Following that a letter of interest,
including your name, affiliation, and chapter proposal should be sent electronically by April 19th,
2015. Proposals (2-3 pages) should provide a descriptive outline and clearly explain the purpose and
contribution of the chapter. Definitive acceptance notifications will be sent by April 27th, 2015. We
also invite advanced graduate students and recent PhDs to submit proposals that address one or
more of the themes above. Upon acceptance, authors will have until August 31st, 2015 to prepare a
chapter of approximately 6,000 and 10,000 words, including notes and references.
Each chapter will be subject to a peer review process and must not have been published, accepted
for publication, or presently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Guidelines for preparing
the final chapter will be sent upon acceptance notification.
Note: No late abstracts will be accepted. The final papers are due August 31st, 2015.

The following dates are important to know:
Abstract Deadline: March 22nd, 2015
Abstract Notification: March 30th, 2015
Full Chapter Proposal Due: April 19th, 2015
Definitive Acceptance Notifications: April 27th, 2015
Full Chapters Due: August 31st, 2015

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