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Dear all,

A new peer-reviewed academic journal has just been launched entitled Performing Islam. Please see the attachment if you would like to submit an article for a future edition. If you or your institution would like to subscribe to the journal you can do so here: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=209.

Here is the journal outline and the table of contents for the first issue:

Founder and Editor

Kamal Salhi University of Leeds



Emerging from an international network project funded by the British 
Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Economics and Social 
Research Council, and research collaboration between academics and 
practitioners, Performing Islam is the first peer-reviewed 
interdisciplinary journal about Islam and performance and their related 
aesthetics. It focuses on socio-cultural as well as the historical and 
political contexts of artistic practices in the Muslim world. The 
journal covers dance, ritual, theatre, performing arts, visual arts and 
cultures, and popular entertainment in Islam-influenced societies and 
their diasporas. It promotes insightful research of performative 
expressions of Islam by performers and publics, and encompasses 
theoretical debates, empirical studies, postgraduate research, 
interviews with performers, research notes and queries, and reviews of 
books, conferences, festivals, events and performances.
	
Contents
		
					
				In Memory of Mohammed Arkoun 1928–2010
				
				

									
								
						
				EDITORIAL
				
					Authors: 
						
						Kamal Salhi 									
				

									
						
				Suluk Wujil and Javanese Performance Theory
				
					Authors: 
						
						Matthew Isaac Cohen 									
				

									
						
				Ambivalences of piety: Gendered identities of Egyptian women in performance
				
					Authors: 
						
						Mona Khedr 									
				

									
						
				The politics of performance and the creation of 
South Asian music in Britain: Identities, transnational cosmopolitanism 
and the public sphere
				
					Authors: 
						
						Hae-kyung Um 									
				

									
						
				Sacred pleasure, pain and transformation in African Indian Sidi Sufi ritual and performance
				
					Authors: 
						
						Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy 									
				

									
						
				British Muslim Converts Performing 'Authentic Muslimness'
				
					Authors: 
						
						Leon Moosavi 									
				

									
						
				Yassavi zikr in twenty-first century Central Asia: sound, place and authenticity
				
					Authors: 
						
						Razia Sultanova 									
				

									
						
				Interview with Raja (Radio DJ), Walsall, Birmingham (18 April 2010)
				
					Authors: 
						
						Thomas Hodgson 									
				

									
						
				Performing dhikr above a nightclub: the interplay of commerce and spirituality at the Fez Festival of Sufi Culture
				
					Authors: 
						
						Nina Ter Laan 									
				

									
					Best wishes,

Dr Leon Moosavi 		 	   		  
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