Intellectual Discourse

The manuscript submitted to Intellectual Discourse should not have been published elsewhere, and should not be under consideration by other publication. This must be stated in the covering letter.

1. Original research and review articles should be 5,000-8,000 words while research notes 3,000-4,000 words, accompanied by an abstract of 100-150 words. Book review should be 1,000-1,500 words.
2. Manuscripts should be double-spaced with a 1 in (2.5 cm) margins. Use 12-point Times New Roman Font.
3. Manuscripts should adhere to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, latest edition.
   

• The Title should be as concise as possible and should appear on a separate sheet together with name(s) of the author(s), affiliation(s), and the completed postal address of the institute(s).
• A short running title of not more than 40 characters should also be included.
• Headings and sub-headings of different sections should be clearly indicated.
• References should be alphabetically ordered. Some examples are given below:

Book
In-text:  Al-Faruqi & al-Faruqi (1986)
Reference:  Al-Faruqi, I. R. & al-Faruqi, L. L. (1986). The cultural atlas of Islam. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company.

Chapter in a Book
In-text:  Alias (2009)
Reference:  Alias, A. (2009). Human nature. In N. M. Noor (Ed.), Psychology from an Islamic perspective: A guide to teaching and learning (pp. 79-117). Kuala Lumpur: IIUM Press.

Journal Article
In-text:  Chapra (2002)
Reference:  Chapra, M. U. (2002). Islam and the international debt problem, Journal of Islamic Studies, 10, 214-32.

The Qur’ān
In-text:  (i) direct quotation, write as 30: 36
             (ii) indirect quotation, write as Qur’ān, 30: 36
Reference:  The glorious Qur’an. Translation and commentary by A. Yusuf Ali (1977). US: American Trust Publications.

Ḥadīth
In text:  (i) Al-Bukhārī, 88: 204 (where 88 is the book number, 204 is the ḥadīth number)
(ii) Ibn Ḥanbal, vol. 1, p. 1 
Reference:  (i) Al-Bukhārī, Muhammad ibn Ismā‘īl (1981). Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī. Beirut: Dār al-Fikr.
       (ii) Ibn Ḥanbal, Aḥmad (1982). Musnad Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal. Istanbul: Cagri Yayinlari.

The Bible
In text:  Matthew 12: 31-32
Reference:  The new Oxford annotated Bible (2007). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Transliteration of Arabic words should follow the style indicated in ROTAS Transliteration Kit as detailed on its website (http://rotas.iium.edu.my/?Table_of_Transliteration), which is a slight modification of ALA-LC (Library of Congress and the American Library Association) transliteration scheme. Transliteration of Persian, Urdu, Turkish and other scripts should follow ALA-LC scheme.

The review process usually takes about three months. Procedures for reviewing manuscripts are based on the anonymity of the author and the confidentiality of readers’ and editors’ reports; hence, self-references should be removed. Manuscripts are refereed by the members of the editorial board and by other scholars at both IIUM and other institutions. Authors will normally receive a decision on their papers within 100 days of receipt. Papers can be provisionally accepted, and authors will be expected to revise the manuscripts on the recommendation of referees. The editorial board reserves the right to edit a manuscript to make it more readable.

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