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€750 Prize for the Best Article on Islamic Studies

To encourage and support early-career scholars seeking to publish in leading academic journals, Brill is awarding an annual prize for an outstanding article in the field of Middle East and Islamic Studies.

To encourage and support early-career scholars seeking to publish in leading academic journals, Brill is awarding an annual prize for an outstanding article in the field of Middle East and Islamic Studies. Brill’s Middle East and Islamic Studies Early-Career Paper Prize is made possible by the Sheikh Zayed Book Award for publishing.

The author of the winning article will receive a €750,- cash prize and the article will be published in one of Brill’s leading journals.

The Paper Prize is open to students who are currently registered for doctoral research at a higher education institution, or have obtained their doctoral degree no longer than 3 years before the submission deadline. Any eligible article should be full-length and an original contribution to the field of Islamic and/or Middle East Studies. Each year the competition will be hosted by one of Brill’s journals.

Submission Requirements 2017

In 2017 the Paper Prize will be hosted by Islamic Law and Society.

This year, the Paper Prize is open to students who are currently registered for doctoral research at a higher education institution, or have obtained their doctoral degree after 1 September 2014.

Any eligible article should:

  • fit the scope of Islamic Law and Society
  • be full-length (but not exceed 10.000 words including footnotes)
  • be an original contribution to the field of Islamic and/or Middle East Studies.

Articles should be submitted in PDF and Word format, together with a short CV. All submissions must comply with the journal style sheet, which can be found in the Author Instructions of the journal, and at brill.com/ils.

Submissions for the 2017 prize must be sent to: articlecompetition@brill.com, no later than 1 October 2017.

The winner will be announced via Brill’s social media channels:

Twitter: @Brill_ME_Africa
Facebook: facebook.com/BrillMidEastAfrica
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