Undoubtedly, the resources and means of communication were a major hurdle in the way of faster sharing of ideas. With the presence of the Internet, scholars from around the world and from various disciplines can now share information and exchange ideas within seconds. Additionally, publishing a hardcopy journal is a time consuming and expensive endeavor. Now, with the capacity to store and share information electronically, we can create limitless archives and size-less publications that bring together scholars from all disciplines and whose common interest is the historical Islam and the geographical and political Middle East.

In order to achieve the above objectives, the founders of this project had designed a flexible editorial policy and an innovative technical design to publish, retrieve, and reference information.  Authors could submit their non-reviewed papers to our editors, who in turn will forward the document to two specialists in the field for determination of whether we should publish or decline the paper. This option can take a long time for obvious reasons and we prefer that your use the alternate tract outlined below.

Alternatively, authors may contact a minimum of two (3 is recommended) established scholars to review their papers. You must provide them with the checklist (view the html checklist) and instruct them to email us their recommendations along with your article directly.  The reviewers will rely on the same checklist and guidelines to decide for or against the publication of the paper.  They then must forward us directly their final decision.  This option is designed to speed up the process as usually authors are best suited to know colleagues in the same discipline and to know their schedule as to whether or not they have the time to review the paper in a timely manner.

The SIME journal encourages submissions of research papers, announcements, articles, bibliographies, out-of-print books, and book reviews on all above-mentioned topics. Peer-Reviewed Papers are published twice per annum. Non-peer-reviewed articles, commentaries, and opinion pieces are published monthly and as Special Editions--when necessary. The full content of the journal is currently  distributed without charge through the World Wide Web. For deadlines, check the categories in the top menu.

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Only scholarly research papers and original theory books (eBooks) are subject to the scholarly review process outlined above. Resource books, translations, and articles are excluded from the review process. For questions, email us at: info@majalla.org