CALL FOR ORIGINAL PAPERS http://www.maghreb-studies-association.co.uk/en/call.html#Literacy

	ORIGINAL PAPERS: We welcome original papers from scholars, on any topics listed in point 1 of our Conditions of Publication — the Maghreb, the Middle East, Africa and Islamic studies from the earliest times to the present day (history, ethnography, economics, politics, Islamic culture, philosophy and science in the Islamic world, linguistics, literature, education, agriculture, sociology, anthropology, women studies, ethnomusicology, etc).    We would also like to promote theoretically informed comparison with neighbouring regions, including the Iberian peninsula, southern France, Italy and the former Ottoman lands, and with distant areas that share related historical experience, such as Central Asia, Southern Africa or South and Central America. FORTHCOMING SPECIAL ISSUES: We welcome original papers for our forthcoming special issues on the following topics... Health in the Maghreb, the Middle East and Africa deadline for submission 30 November 2014 full details below Literacy in traditional societies in Muslim, Arab, Maghreb and African countries deadline for submission 30 November 2014 full details below Islamic Philosophy deadline for submission 31 December 2014 full details below REVIEWS AND THESES ABSTRACTS: The Maghreb Review would welcome receipt of single-page abstracts of theses presented and accepted in the Universities and other Higher Education Institutions world wide in our area of reseach for inclusion in the journal. The text of the abstracts should be in English or French.    Therefore, we ask all our contributors and readers to send in all relevant information in relation to their published books and theses including review copies for the journal.
	HEALTH IN THE MAGHREB, THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA The Maghreb Review, Volume 34. 1, 2009 was devoted to this topic. We intend to continue publishing original studies on this subject in the future. Therefore, we welcome papers in English or French from specialists. History has shown us that Mankind has always been the focus of the studies that are based on different perspectives of various scientific disciplines. Our attention in future issues is to draw attention to the degrees of success, and to the problems encountered by health planners in the Maghreb, the Middle East and Africa, and to produce ways of providing information for related research and health care in the future. Governments should as far as possible involve local communities and not just insurance companies, who see patients as customers. We welcome original contributions on the following topics: 1. Religion: prohibitions of certain medical practices in Islam and other faiths, in particular those such as human tissue in organ transplantation and cloning: (Ḥadīth, Fatwās, Qurʾān and Bible); 2. Sex: practices; Aids, policy and practice. 3. Economics: medicine: cost vs quality vs equity and safety. 4. Regulatory mechanisms, particularly in the import of medicines. 5. Humanitarian and Philanthropic contributions: We welcome original articles analysing the rule of philanthropic organisations, particularly in Africa and other countries where the health systems have very limited national resources to deal with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, recent swine flu and other tropical diseases. This research should explain how such philanthropic resources have changed people’s lives and whether their involvement has any political and financial influence on local or national politics. 6. Can the state cope with the growth of populations which live longer, while the cost of treatment is getting more and more expensive? 7. Earlier medical research by Muslims. The history of Muslim, Christian and Judaic medicine. 8. Treatment of cancer in the Maghreb, the Middle East and Africa. 9. The treatment of mental health in the Maghreb, the Middle East and Africa. 10. Issues of medical ethics and medical jurisprudence. 11. We are also interested in the subject of Medical Anthropology. Our Conditions of Publication are available here on our website. THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS 30 NOVEMBER 2014. MANUSCRIPTS IN ENGLISH OR IN FRENCH. SPECIAL ISSUE ON LITERACY IN TRADITIONAL SOCIETIES IN MUSLIM, ARAB, MAGHREB AND AFRICAN COUNTRIES We welcome original papers on “Literacy in traditional societies in Muslim, Arab, Maghreb and African countries” from the earliest time to the present. For example, how knowledge, scientific or otherwise was transmitted either orally or through books, Qur’anic schools or modern education. Our Conditions of Publication are available here on our website. THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS 30 NOVEMBER 2014. MANUSCRIPTS IN ENGLISH OR IN FRENCH. SPECIAL ISSUE ON ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY Original articles on any topic related to Islamic philosophy from earliest times to the present day, can now be considered for publication in a special issue of The Maghreb Review devoted to Islamic philosophy in 2015.    We welcome papers that represent the diversity within studies of medieval and modern works of Islamic philosophy, including the different scholarly views and opinions natural to such diversity. Our Conditions of Publication are available here on our website. THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS 31 DECEMBER 2014. MANUSCRIPTS IN ENGLISH OR IN FRENCH.