Papers submitted for publication must conform to the following guidelines:

• Papers should discuss the themes of Islam, Muslim Society, or other religions, written either in Indonesian, English or Arabic;
• Papers must be typed in one-half spaced on A4-paper size;
• Papers’ length is about 6,000-10,000 words (not including the references and bibliography);
• All submission must include a 150-200 word abstract;
• Full name(s) of the author(s) must be stated, along with his/her/their institution and complete address;
• All submission should be in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format;
• Arabic words should be transliterated according to the style of Al‑Jāmi’ah;
• Bibliographical reference must be noted in footnote and bibliography according to Al‑Jāmi’ah style.
• When a source is cited for the first time, full information is provided: full name(s) of author(s), title of the source in italic, place of publication, publishing company, date of publication, and the precise page that is cited. For the following citations of the same source, list the author’s last name, two or three words of the title, and the specific page number(s). The word ibid. may be used, but op.cit., and loc.cit. are not.

• Examples of footnote style:
  1. Reşit Haylamaz, Aisha: the Wife, the Companion, the Scholar (New Jersey: Tughra Books, 2014), p. 25.
  2. Ibid., p. 20.
  3. Wahbah az-Zuhaili, al-Fiqh al-Islāmī wa Adillatuhu, vol. II, 2nd edition (Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1985), p.3.
  4. Ibid., II: 5.
  5. Haylamaz, Aisha, p. 50.
  6. Moch Nur Ichwan, “Differing Responses to an Ahmadi Translation and Exegesis: the Holy Qur’ân in Egypt and Indonesia”, Archipel, vol. 62, no. 1 (2001), pp. 143–61.
  7. Carlos Ulibarri, “Rational Philanthropy and Cultural Capital”, Journal of Cultural Economics, vol. 24, no. 2 (2000), p. 5.
  8. Wildan Pramudya, “Antropologi Zakat: System of Giving dalam Islam”, Wildan Pramudya (30 Aug 2010), https://pramudyarifin.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/antropologi-zakat-system-of-giving-dalam-islam/, accessed 26 May 2014.
  9. Nyein Pyae Sone, “At Rangoon Mosque, Buddhist Monks Accept Alms and Discuss Tolerance”, The Irrawaddy (4 Jul 2013), http://www.irrawaddy.com/conflict/at-rangoon-mosque-buddhist-monks-accept-alms-and-discuss-tolerance.html, accessed 4 Jul 2013.
  10. Mark Edelman and Sandra Charvat Burke, Creating Philanthropy Initiatives to Enhance Community Vitality, Staff General Research Report, no. 12951 (Iowa State University, Department of Economics, 2008), p. 4, https://ideas.repec.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?q=philanthropy, accessed 23 Jun 2015.
  11. J. Iqbal, “Democracy and the Modern Islamic State”, in Voices of Resurgent Islam, ed. by John L. Esposito (Oxford University Press, 1983).
  12. Nadirsyah Hosen, “Shari’a & Constitutional Reform in Indonesia”, Master Thesis (Singapore: National University of Singapore, 2005).
  13. Kevin William Fogg, “The Fate of Muslim Nationalism in Independent Indonesia”, PhD. Dissertation (Yale University, 2012), http://gradworks.umi.com/35/35/3535314.html, accessed 16 Feb 2016.
  
  Example of Bibliography:

Edelman, Mark and Sandra Charvat Burke, Creating Philanthropy Initiatives to Enhance Community Vitality, Staff General Research Report, no. 12951, Iowa State University, Department of Economics, 2008, https://ideas.repec.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?q=philanthropy, accessed 23 Jun 2015.

Fogg, Kevin William, “The Fate of Muslim Nationalism in Independent Indonesia”, PhD. Dissertation, Yale University, 2012, http://gradworks.umi.com/35/35/3535314.html, accessed 16 Feb 2016.

Haylamaz, Reşit, Aisha: The Wife, The Companion, The Scholar, New Jersey: Tughra Books, 2014.

Hosen, Nadirsyah, “Shari’a & Constitutional Reform in Indonesia”, Master Thesis, Singapore: National University of Singapore, 2005.

Iqbal, J., “Democracy and the Modern Islamic State”, in Voices of Resurgent Islam, ed. by John L. Esposito, Oxford University Press, 1983.

Nur Ichwan, Moch, “Differing Responses to an Ahmadi Translation and Exegesis: The Holy Qur’ân in Egypt and Indonesia”, Archipel, vol. 62, no. 1, 2001, pp. 143–61 [http://dx.doi.org/10.3406/arch.2001.3668].

Pramudya, Wildan, “Antropologi Zakat: System of Giving dalam Islam”, Wildan Pramudya, 30 Aug 2010, https://pramudyarifin.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/antropologi-zakat-system-of-giving-dalam-islam/, accessed 26 May 2014.

Sone, Nyein Pyae, “At Rangoon Mosque, Buddhist Monks Accept Alms and Discuss Tolerance”, The Irrawaddy, 4 Jul 2013, http://www.irrawaddy.com/conflict/at-rangoon-mosque-buddhist-monks-accept-alms-and-discuss-tolerance.html, accessed 4 Jul 2013.

Ulibarri, Carlos, “Rational Philanthropy and Cultural Capital”, Journal of Cultural Economics, vol. 24, no. 2, 2000, pp. 135–46 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1007639601013>.

Az-Zuhaili, Wahbah, al-Fiqh al-Islāmī wa Adillatuhu, vol. II, 2nd edition, Beirut: Dār al-Fikr, 1985.

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1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text is one-half spaced on A4-paper size, consisting of 6000-10,000 words; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses).
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
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