About this journal

Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Multidisciplinary Studies: Mathal (ISSN 2168-538X) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal dedicated to scholarly discussion of topics present in the Islamic, Arab, Persian, Turkish, Judaic, Middle Eastern, North African, and Southwest Asian studies.

The journal approaches these complex issues through interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary lenses. Scholars from all relevant disciplines including, anthropology, history, gender studies, law, literature, political science, religious studies, and sociology are invited to submit to the journal

Book Reviews: Publishers and authors who wish to submit work of scholarship for review may send books to the following address: Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Multidisciplinary Studies, ATTN: Prof. Souaiaia, 314 Gilmore Hall, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242

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Indexing Information

Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Multidisciplinary Studies: Mathal is indexed in Index Islamicus.

Complete metadata for all articles in the journal, including DOIs, is available via OAI. See our policy regarding use and reuse of our metadata.

Open Access Policy

The full text is freely available immediately; there is no embargo period. Authors will receive monthly emails providing the count of downloads of their articles. Download counts are displayed for each article. There are no article submission charges nor article processing charges (APC) to publish. COUNTER usage statistics are not available.

Copyright and Licenses

Authors retain their copyrights, releasing their works for publication in the journal through creative commons licenses. The author may include the officially published version of the article (version of record) in an institutional or disciplinary repository, provided the posting includes a prominent statement of the full bibliographical details, and a link to the online edition of the journal.

Author Charges

There are no article submission charges nor article processing charges (APC) to publish.

Usage Information

Download counts are displayed for each article. COUNTER usage statistics are not available.

Preservation Status

Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Multidisciplinary Studies: Mathal is preserved in the Portico and the LOCKSS Archive.

Prior to September 2021, this title was previously hosted in Digital Commons software. That site is available in the Internet Archive.

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