[Bilimsel Haber] CfP: e Shingetsu Electronic Journal of Japanese-Islamic Relations (SEJJIR)

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CALL FOR PAPERS: The Shingetsu Electronic Journal of Japanese-Islamic
Relations Volume 3 (March 2008)


Overview

The Shingetsu Electronic Journal of Japanese-Islamic Relations (SEJJIR)
focuses on Japanese-Muslim relations and related topics. Japan's relations
with the Islamic world is an exciting field of study that will help enrich
understanding of Japan's historical, political, economic, and cultural role
in the world. The topic also merits special attention in view of the
increasing Japanese involvement in regions of the world with predominantly
Muslim populations. The field remains understudied. The subject of
Japanese-Muslim relations also encompasses transnational and international
history. It enables us to understand aspects of Japanese society, politics,
and culture from a different angle.

SEJJIR welcomes papers on past and present relations between Japan and the
Muslim world. Suggested main themes are:

1. Papers on contemporary issues in politics, economics, investment,
trade,finance, social and cultural affairs; including Japanese interest and
involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan as two crisis areas. We also include
sociological studies of present-day Japanese and Muslim images of each
other, and identity formation.

2. Papers on historical subjects, especially the modern period, although
earlier periods are not excluded. At present, even the formal diplomatic
relations of Muslim countries with Japan have not been studied in great
depth compared to Japan's relations with the Western countries.
Intellectual, cultural, economic relations also promise to yield an
uncharted view of Japanese modern history, and that of modern Muslim
societies as well.


Content

Scholarly papers on any of these suggested topics and beyond are quite
welcome. Manuscripts should be sent to the Editor-in-Chief, Selcuk Esenbel
(esenbel at boun.edu.tr) and the main e-mail address of the Shingetsu
Institute shingetsu_institute at hotmail.com), after which they will be
reviewed for quality and suitability. Papers of any length are welcome so
long as they meet scholarly standards of quality.

The language of SEJJIR is English, but we encourage non-native speakers of
English to make proposals even if their English abilities are not complete.
One of the purposes of this journal is to make available in smooth and
readable English scholarship that currently exists only in other languages.
In some cases, it is possible to submit articles to SEJJIR which are
written in Japanese, and we ourselves will take responsibility for the
English translation work, with the authors' approval.

The journal is posted biannually (March and September) at the Shingetsu
Institute website. All papers are available on PDF files to ensure proper
formatting. Volume 1 was released in March 2007, and is currently available
at the SEJJIR site:

http://www.shingetsuinstitute.com/publications2.htm

Volume 2 will be posted in September and will include research papers by
the world-renowned scholar of Africa Ali A. Mazrui, and Tai Wei Lim of the
National University of Singapore. Also featured will be a translation of an
eyewitness account of the first Japanese naval mission in the Persian Gulf
in 1880.


Deadlines for Volume Three

September 30, 2007 -- Deadline for one-page proposals
December 31, 2007 -- Deadline for completed manuscripts


Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief:

Selcuk Esenbel, Bogazici University

Editors:

Christopher Len, Institute for Security and Development Policy
Michael Penn, Shingetsu Institute
John Edward Philips, Hirosaki University
Keiko Sakai, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Keiko T. Tamura, The University of Kitakyushu
Shintaro Yoshimura, Hiroshima University



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