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Philosophical Studies Journal (PSJ) is a double-anonymous peer-reviewed philosophical journal published by Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities in collaboration with Brill. The journal specializes in philosophy of religion and medieval philosophy and how these approaches and traditions are relevant to new philosophical issues, particularly in the context of Arab culture. PSJ covers ancient and modern philosophical topics and encourages the exchange of different opinions and viewpoints on each topic, including historical, analytical and comparative studies bridging medieval Islamic thought with European and Asian philosophical traditions.
PSJ publishes research primarily in Arabic, but also accepts articles in English and French. The journal only publishes original content that has not been previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
مجلة الدراسات الفلسفية هي مجلّة فلسفيّة محكّمة تصدر عن جامعة محمّد بن زايد للعلوم الإنسانية بالتعاون مع دار النشر العالميّة بريل. تختصّ المجلّة بالبحث الفلسفيّ في فلسفة الدين والفلسفة الوسيطة. تكتسب المجلّة أهمّيّتها انطلاقًا من مقاربتها القضايا الفلسفيّة في محاور تنفتح على قضايا فلسفية جديدة وخاصة في سياق الثقافة العربية. تهتمّ المجلّة بالموضوعات الفلسفيّة القديمة والحديثة، وتشجّع على تبادل الآراء ووجهات النظر في كلّ موضوع، بما في ذلك الدراسات التاريخية والتحليلية والمقارنة التي تربط الفكر الإسلامي في العصور الوسطى بالتقاليد الفلسفية الأوروبية والآسيوية.
تنشر مجلة الدراسات الفلسفية الأبحاثَ باللغة العربيّة بشكل أساسي، ولكنها تقبل أيضًا المقالات باللغتين الإنجليزية والفرنسية. وتشترط في الأعمال الواردة إليها ألّا تكون قد نُشرت سابقًا أو قُدِّمت للنشر في مطبوعات أخرى.
Editor-in-chief
Hakim Ajhar, Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Editorial Board
Azelarabe Lahkim Bennani, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco
Feriel Bouhafa, Julius Maximilian University, Würzburg, Germany
Ayman Shihadeh, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, London, United Kingdom
Sabrin Zaghloul, Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Managing Editor
Sterling Jensen, Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
رئيس التحرير حكيم أجهر، جامعة محمّد بن زايد للعلوم الإنسانيّة، أبوظبي، الإمارات العربية المتحدة
لجنة التحرير عزّ العرب الحكيم بناني، جامعة سيدي محمد بن عبد الله، فاس، المملكة المغربية
فريال بوحافة، جامعة يوليوس ماكسيميليانس، فورتسبورغ، ألمانيا
صابرين زغلول، جامعة محمد بن زايد للعلوم الإنسانية، أبوظبي، الإمارات العربية المتحدة
أيمن شحادة، مدرسة الدراسات الشرقية والإفريقية، جامعة لندن، لندن، إنجلترا
المحرر التنفيذي ستيرلنج جينسن، جامعة محمد بن زايد للعلوم الإنسانيّة، أبوظبي، الإمارات العربية المتحدة
المدقق اللغوي شفيق اكّريكّر، جامعة المولى إسماعيل، مكناس، المغرب
Online submission
Articles for publication in the Philosophical Studies Journal can be submitted online through Editorial Manager.
To submit an article, click here.
For more details on online submission, please visit our EM Support page.
Instructions for Authors
The publication of a manuscript in a peer-reviewed work is expected to follow standards of ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: authors, editors, and reviewers. Authors, editors, and reviewers should thoroughly acquaint themselves with Brill’s publication ethics, which may be downloaded here: https://brill.edhh.ma/page/ethics/publication-ethics-cope-compliance.
Online Submission Philosophical Studies Journal (PSJ) now uses online submission only. Authors should submit their manuscript online by email to philosophy.journal@mbzuh.ac.ae.
Double-blinded Peer Review PSJ uses a double-blind peer review system, which means that manuscript author(s) do not know who the reviewers are, and that reviewers do not know the names of the author(s). When you submit your article, please attach a separate title page that includes the full title of the manuscript, the names and complete contact details of all authors, the abstract, keywords, and any acknowledgement texts. Authors also have to send along their full affiliation: department, university, city, country. All other files (manuscript, figures, tables, etc.) should not contain any information concerning author names, institutions, etc. The names of these files and the document properties should also be anonymized.
File Format
Contributions should be submitted as both a Word document and a Portable Document Format (PDF).
Contact Address
For any questions or problems relating to your manuscript please contact PSJ’s e-mail address: philosophy.journal@mbzuh.ac.ae.
Affiliation and Acknowledgements
After reviewers’ approval, the following information should be added underneath the article title: Author’s name, author’s full affiliation accompanied by the city and country of the institution in addition to the author’s e-mail address (e.g., Bilal Orfali, Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, bo00@aub.edu.lb). If an author wishes to list acknowledgements, they should be placed in the first footnote appended to the author’s name. This is also the appropriate place for personal words of faith and praise, opening religious formulae and the like, with which authors enhance their work.
File Format
Both Windows and Mac users are requested to save the file with the extension: .doc or .rtf.
Major Criteria for Acceptance of Articles
When composing their texts, authors are requested to take into account the following major criteria for acceptance:
• Theory
• Literature Review
• Contribution/Novelty
• Plagiarism & Potential Legal Issues
• Audience/Scope
• Structure/Coherence
Submission Requirements
Language
Contributions should be written in English or Arabic. If it is necessary to include text in another language, please follow the spelling and capitalization rules for those languages.
Unicode and Non-Roman Fonts
In view of a uniform encoding of non-Latin scripts and diacritics used for Roman transliteration of Arabic, the use of fonts conforming to the Unicode standard is required. For the handling of special scripts and transliteration, we recommend following the rules given below, and the information provided on the Brill website at: https://brill.edhh.ma/fileasset/downloads_static/static_fonts_latinipaunicodelist.pdf.
If you have need of special diacritics then Brill suggests the Brill font (https://brill.edhh.ma/about/brill-fonts). For all diacritics that cannot be displayed with regular fonts or the Brill, please send along the font with the article's electronic version. Please use a Unicode compliant font. For any article using special fonts, send along a PDF file with the fonts embedded.
In case the author uses specific non-standard fonts for the diacritics of Arabic or Persian letters, notes about these fonts must be submitted.
Length
Contributions should not exceed 10,000 words, inclusive of in-text citations and notes, but exclusive of a bibliography. Please include a word count with your contribution.
Transliteration
Transliterations of foreign words should follow accepted formats. For the transliteration of Arabic and Persian script, we follow the system of the Third Edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam, as follows:
Consonants
ء ʾ ب b پ p ت t ث th ج j چ ch ح ḥ خ kh د d ذ dh ر r ز z ژ zh س s ش sh ص ṣ ض ḍ ط ṭ ظ ẓ ع ʿ غ gh ف f ق q ک k گ g y ي w و h هـ n ن m م l ل
Hamza
The ʾ (hamza) should not be used when it appears in an initial position in a word: al-akhdh not al-ʾakhdh, Amīr not ʾAmīr.
Definite Article
ا ل al- (article), no elision takes place for sun-letters: al-shams, al-kitāb.
In case of prepositions preceding definite nouns and pronouns, the a is dropped: fī l-madīna, bi-l-ʿaql, li-lṣāḥib.
Manuscript Structure
The text must be formatted with 1.5-inch margins and be double-spaced. For all other matters of style such as capitalization and the use of italics, the Chicago Manual of Style (available online at: https://chicagomanualofstyle.org/contents.html) should be used as a guide.
Abstract and Keywords
All submissions should be accompanied by concise abstracts (max. 150 words) in both English and Arabic. At least five keywords should be included after the abstract text in both Arabic and English.
Punctuation Marks
All punctuation marks (, : ; .) placed next to quotation marks, should generally be included within the quotation marks (e.g. “right,” but not “false”, etc.). Moreover, if a footnote number is placed next to a punctuation mark, it should be placed after the punctuation mark (;1 .2) unless the context exigently requires it to be arranged differently.
Indentation
Authors should use tabs for the indentation of paragraphs.
Headings
Obvious structures in the article should be clearly outlined with the use of headings.
1 First Level Headings Are Bold
1.1 Second Level Headings Are Bold Italic
1.1.2 Third Level Headings Are Roman
Footnotes
Citations or references are provided in footnotes, as indicated before and illustrated below. PSJ does not make use of endnotes.
Bibliography
Please provide an alphabetical list of all sources cited in your contribution in the form of a bibliography. The style to be followed is that of The Chicago Manual of Style. This bibliography will not contribute to your word count. For more details and many more examples, see of The Chicago Manual of Style, chapter 14.
Figures
Diagrams, charts, maps, plans, and other line drawings that are not embedded into the text files, as well as photographs must be submitted as high-resolution image files (TIFF format). If excessive file size forbids the uploading of images by e-mail, these may be forwarded on CD-ROM while being replaced by low-resolution link copies at the appropriate places in the article.
They should be graphic files that are at least 300 dpi for pictures and at least 600 dpi for line drawing.
Book Reviews
In addition to the Articles, PSJ regularly publishes reviews of major new contributions to the field of philosophical studies. In general, the Editorial Board of PSJ will invite experts to write these reviews. However, it also welcomes the submission of book reviews by individual authors at their own initiative. The combined purpose of the typical book review for PSJ is to summarize and, at the same time, critically evaluate the work discussed. With a space limit between 800 and 2000 words, there will always be the need to strike a balance between providing information about the work to be reviewed on the one hand, and leaving enough space for the reviewer’s own evaluation on the other hand. Besides these two elements, a third aspect is to be covered in the type of “extended review” required for PSJ, namely providing a critical commentary on the relevance of the work under review to (one or more of) the fields of philosophical studies. Therefore, book reviews for PSJ should cover the following three basic elements:
1 Summary
2 Critical Evaluation
3 Relevance for the field of philosophical studies
Review Headings
Information given in the headings of reviews takes the following form in order and punctuation:
• Rashed, Roshdi (ed.), Lexique historique de la langue scientific arabe, Liv + 971pp. Arabic Science and Culture 1. Hidesheim: Georg-Olms-Verlag, 2017. €98. Hardcover. ISBN 9783-48715528-9.
• Ansari, Hassan, L’imamat et l’occultation selon l’imamisme: Étude bibliographique et histoire des textes, xx + 310pp + 268pp (Annexe en Arabe). Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Text 134. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. $245. Hardback. ISBN 978-90-04-23228-0.
Publication Proofs
Upon acceptance, a PDF of the article proofs will be sent to the author by e-mail to check carefully for factual and typographic errors. In the event of a multi-authored contribution, proofs are sent to the firstnamed author unless otherwise requested. Authors are responsible for checking these proofs and are strongly urged to make use of the Comment & Markup toolbar to note their corrections directly on the proofs. At this stage in the production process only minor corrections are allowed. Alterations to the original manuscript at this stage will result in considerable delay in publication and, therefore, are not accepted unless charged to the author. Proofs should be returned promptly.
Consent to Publish Open Access
The author(s) keep copyright and give Brill permission to publish by signing a special Brill Open Consent to Publish. The Brill Open Consent to Publish will be sent to you by the responsible desk-editor. For more information, see the https://brill.edhh.ma/openaccess dedicated webpage or contact openaccess@brill.com.
Online submission
Articles for publication in the Philosophical Studies Journal can be submitted online through Editorial Manager.
To submit an article, click here.
For more details on online submission, please visit our EM Support page.
Instructions for Authors
The publication of a manuscript in a peer-reviewed work is expected to follow standards of ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing: authors, editors, and reviewers. Authors, editors, and reviewers should thoroughly acquaint themselves with Brill’s publication ethics, which may be downloaded here: https://brill.edhh.ma/page/ethics/publication-ethics-cope-compliance.
Online Submission Philosophical Studies Journal (PSJ) now uses online submission only. Authors should submit their manuscript online by email to philosophy.journal@mbzuh.ac.ae.
Double-blinded Peer Review PSJ uses a double-blind peer review system, which means that manuscript author(s) do not know who the reviewers are, and that reviewers do not know the names of the author(s). When you submit your article, please attach a separate title page that includes the full title of the manuscript, the names and complete contact details of all authors, the abstract, keywords, and any acknowledgement texts. Authors also have to send along their full affiliation: department, university, city, country. All other files (manuscript, figures, tables, etc.) should not contain any information concerning author names, institutions, etc. The names of these files and the document properties should also be anonymized.
File Format
Contributions should be submitted as both a Word document and a Portable Document Format (PDF).
Contact Address
For any questions or problems relating to your manuscript please contact PSJ’s e-mail address: philosophy.journal@mbzuh.ac.ae.
Affiliation and Acknowledgements
After reviewers’ approval, the following information should be added underneath the article title: Author’s name, author’s full affiliation accompanied by the city and country of the institution in addition to the author’s e-mail address (e.g., Bilal Orfali, Department of Arabic and Near Eastern Languages, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, bo00@aub.edu.lb). If an author wishes to list acknowledgements, they should be placed in the first footnote appended to the author’s name. This is also the appropriate place for personal words of faith and praise, opening religious formulae and the like, with which authors enhance their work.
File Format
Both Windows and Mac users are requested to save the file with the extension: .doc or .rtf.
Major Criteria for Acceptance of Articles
When composing their texts, authors are requested to take into account the following major criteria for acceptance:
• Theory
• Literature Review
• Contribution/Novelty
• Plagiarism & Potential Legal Issues
• Audience/Scope
• Structure/Coherence
Submission Requirements
Language
Contributions should be written in English or Arabic. If it is necessary to include text in another language, please follow the spelling and capitalization rules for those languages.
Unicode and Non-Roman Fonts
In view of a uniform encoding of non-Latin scripts and diacritics used for Roman transliteration of Arabic, the use of fonts conforming to the Unicode standard is required. For the handling of special scripts and transliteration, we recommend following the rules given below, and the information provided on the Brill website at: https://brill.edhh.ma/fileasset/downloads_static/static_fonts_latinipaunicodelist.pdf.
If you have need of special diacritics then Brill suggests the Brill font (https://brill.edhh.ma/about/brill-fonts). For all diacritics that cannot be displayed with regular fonts or the Brill, please send along the font with the article's electronic version. Please use a Unicode compliant font. For any article using special fonts, send along a PDF file with the fonts embedded.
In case the author uses specific non-standard fonts for the diacritics of Arabic or Persian letters, notes about these fonts must be submitted.
Length
Contributions should not exceed 10,000 words, inclusive of in-text citations and notes, but exclusive of a bibliography. Please include a word count with your contribution.
Transliteration
Transliterations of foreign words should follow accepted formats. For the transliteration of Arabic and Persian script, we follow the system of the Third Edition of Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Islam, as follows:
Consonants
ء ʾ ب b پ p ت t ث th ج j چ ch ح ḥ خ kh د d ذ dh ر r ز z ژ zh س s ش sh ص ṣ ض ḍ ط ṭ ظ ẓ ع ʿ غ gh ف f ق q ک k گ g y ي w و h هـ n ن m م l ل
Hamza
The ʾ (hamza) should not be used when it appears in an initial position in a word: al-akhdh not al-ʾakhdh, Amīr not ʾAmīr.
Definite Article
ا ل al- (article), no elision takes place for sun-letters: al-shams, al-kitāb.
In case of prepositions preceding definite nouns and pronouns, the a is dropped: fī l-madīna, bi-l-ʿaql, li-lṣāḥib.
Manuscript Structure
The text must be formatted with 1.5-inch margins and be double-spaced. For all other matters of style such as capitalization and the use of italics, the Chicago Manual of Style (available online at: https://chicagomanualofstyle.org/contents.html) should be used as a guide.
Abstract and Keywords
All submissions should be accompanied by concise abstracts (max. 150 words) in both English and Arabic. At least five keywords should be included after the abstract text in both Arabic and English.
Punctuation Marks
All punctuation marks (, : ; .) placed next to quotation marks, should generally be included within the quotation marks (e.g. “right,” but not “false”, etc.). Moreover, if a footnote number is placed next to a punctuation mark, it should be placed after the punctuation mark (;1 .2) unless the context exigently requires it to be arranged differently.
Indentation
Authors should use tabs for the indentation of paragraphs.
Headings
Obvious structures in the article should be clearly outlined with the use of headings.
1 First Level Headings Are Bold
1.1 Second Level Headings Are Bold Italic
1.1.2 Third Level Headings Are Roman
Footnotes
Citations or references are provided in footnotes, as indicated before and illustrated below. PSJ does not make use of endnotes.
Bibliography
Please provide an alphabetical list of all sources cited in your contribution in the form of a bibliography. The style to be followed is that of The Chicago Manual of Style. This bibliography will not contribute to your word count. For more details and many more examples, see of The Chicago Manual of Style, chapter 14.
Figures
Diagrams, charts, maps, plans, and other line drawings that are not embedded into the text files, as well as photographs must be submitted as high-resolution image files (TIFF format). If excessive file size forbids the uploading of images by e-mail, these may be forwarded on CD-ROM while being replaced by low-resolution link copies at the appropriate places in the article.
They should be graphic files that are at least 300 dpi for pictures and at least 600 dpi for line drawing.
Book Reviews
In addition to the Articles, PSJ regularly publishes reviews of major new contributions to the field of philosophical studies. In general, the Editorial Board of PSJ will invite experts to write these reviews. However, it also welcomes the submission of book reviews by individual authors at their own initiative. The combined purpose of the typical book review for PSJ is to summarize and, at the same time, critically evaluate the work discussed. With a space limit between 800 and 2000 words, there will always be the need to strike a balance between providing information about the work to be reviewed on the one hand, and leaving enough space for the reviewer’s own evaluation on the other hand. Besides these two elements, a third aspect is to be covered in the type of “extended review” required for PSJ, namely providing a critical commentary on the relevance of the work under review to (one or more of) the fields of philosophical studies. Therefore, book reviews for PSJ should cover the following three basic elements:
1 Summary
2 Critical Evaluation
3 Relevance for the field of philosophical studies
Review Headings
Information given in the headings of reviews takes the following form in order and punctuation:
• Rashed, Roshdi (ed.), Lexique historique de la langue scientific arabe, Liv + 971pp. Arabic Science and Culture 1. Hidesheim: Georg-Olms-Verlag, 2017. €98. Hardcover. ISBN 9783-48715528-9.
• Ansari, Hassan, L’imamat et l’occultation selon l’imamisme: Étude bibliographique et histoire des textes, xx + 310pp + 268pp (Annexe en Arabe). Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Text 134. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. $245. Hardback. ISBN 978-90-04-23228-0.
Publication Proofs
Upon acceptance, a PDF of the article proofs will be sent to the author by e-mail to check carefully for factual and typographic errors. In the event of a multi-authored contribution, proofs are sent to the firstnamed author unless otherwise requested. Authors are responsible for checking these proofs and are strongly urged to make use of the Comment & Markup toolbar to note their corrections directly on the proofs. At this stage in the production process only minor corrections are allowed. Alterations to the original manuscript at this stage will result in considerable delay in publication and, therefore, are not accepted unless charged to the author. Proofs should be returned promptly.
Consent to Publish Open Access
The author(s) keep copyright and give Brill permission to publish by signing a special Brill Open Consent to Publish. The Brill Open Consent to Publish will be sent to you by the responsible desk-editor. For more information, see the https://brill.edhh.ma/openaccess dedicated webpage or contact openaccess@brill.com.
Editor-in-chief
Hakim Ajhar, Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Editorial Board
Azelarabe Lahkim Bennani, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco
Feriel Bouhafa, Julius Maximilian University, Würzburg, Germany
Ayman Shihadeh, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, London, United Kingdom
Sabrin Zaghloul, Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Managing Editor
Sterling Jensen, Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
رئيس التحرير حكيم أجهر، جامعة محمّد بن زايد للعلوم الإنسانيّة، أبوظبي، الإمارات العربية المتحدة
لجنة التحرير عزّ العرب الحكيم بناني، جامعة سيدي محمد بن عبد الله، فاس، المملكة المغربية
فريال بوحافة، جامعة يوليوس ماكسيميليانس، فورتسبورغ، ألمانيا
صابرين زغلول، جامعة محمد بن زايد للعلوم الإنسانية، أبوظبي، الإمارات العربية المتحدة
أيمن شحادة، مدرسة الدراسات الشرقية والإفريقية، جامعة لندن، لندن، إنجلترا
المحرر التنفيذي ستيرلنج جينسن، جامعة محمد بن زايد للعلوم الإنسانيّة، أبوظبي، الإمارات العربية المتحدة
المدقق اللغوي شفيق اكّريكّر، جامعة المولى إسماعيل، مكناس، المغرب
This is a Diamond Open Access journal. Articles are published in Open Access at no cost to the author.
Philosophical Studies Journal (PSJ) is a double-anonymous peer-reviewed philosophical journal published by Mohamed Bin Zayed University for Humanities in collaboration with Brill. The journal specializes in philosophy of religion and medieval philosophy and how these approaches and traditions are relevant to new philosophical issues, particularly in the context of Arab culture. PSJ covers ancient and modern philosophical topics and encourages the exchange of different opinions and viewpoints on each topic, including historical, analytical and comparative studies bridging medieval Islamic thought with European and Asian philosophical traditions.
PSJ publishes research primarily in Arabic, but also accepts articles in English and French. The journal only publishes original content that has not been previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere.
مجلة الدراسات الفلسفية هي مجلّة فلسفيّة محكّمة تصدر عن جامعة محمّد بن زايد للعلوم الإنسانية بالتعاون مع دار النشر العالميّة بريل. تختصّ المجلّة بالبحث الفلسفيّ في فلسفة الدين والفلسفة الوسيطة. تكتسب المجلّة أهمّيّتها انطلاقًا من مقاربتها القضايا الفلسفيّة في محاور تنفتح على قضايا فلسفية جديدة وخاصة في سياق الثقافة العربية. تهتمّ المجلّة بالموضوعات الفلسفيّة القديمة والحديثة، وتشجّع على تبادل الآراء ووجهات النظر في كلّ موضوع، بما في ذلك الدراسات التاريخية والتحليلية والمقارنة التي تربط الفكر الإسلامي في العصور الوسطى بالتقاليد الفلسفية الأوروبية والآسيوية.
تنشر مجلة الدراسات الفلسفية الأبحاثَ باللغة العربيّة بشكل أساسي، ولكنها تقبل أيضًا المقالات باللغتين الإنجليزية والفرنسية. وتشترط في الأعمال الواردة إليها ألّا تكون قد نُشرت سابقًا أو قُدِّمت للنشر في مطبوعات أخرى.
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Al-Farābī, Book of Letters (Kitāb al-Ḥurūf), English Translation with Introduction, Interpretive Essay and Annotations, plus Muhsin Mahdi’s Revised Edition of the Arabic Text, by Charles E. Butterworth