JMIH publishes articles in Arabic, English, and French. Authors should submit the manuscript that has been carefully proofread and polished.
Authors are required to read carefully and follow the instructions for authors to JMIH. Acceptance or rejection notification will be sent to all authors through e-mail.
The submitted article is the final version. The manuscript should be submitted exactly according to the instructions for authors to JMIH.
The maximum number of illustrations, maps, plates, and figures is 12 per paper.
Submit your manuscript electronically.
If you have problems or difficulties uploading your files electronically, please contact the editorial board at https://jmih.journals.ekb.eg/
Send your manuscript as a pdf blind file (without the author’s data) to https://jmih.journals.ekb.eg/ for further peer-review process.
Important Dates
JMIH is an annual journal, its print issue is published each December since 2000.
The deadline is July 31st for publication in December of the same calendar year.
Ain Shams University Contributions
Authors from Ain Shams University expected to not exceed 25-50% percent per issue. Contributions over this percent will be delayed to the next issue considering the agreement of their authors. Priority depends on the submission date of the final article.
JMIH can publish a special issue (Monograph/supplement) any time of the year.
Please note that Review Papers/Articles are also acceptable.
Once a paper is accepted, authors are assumed to cede copyrights of the paper over to JMIH. Once the paper is accepted it will be published online even before the scheduled issue date.
Submit your paper along with a signed Copyrights Form, while submitting a paper to JMIH.
The Copyright Transfer Form submitted with us will become void in case the paper is not accepted in our Journal.
Note: In case manuscript is accepted and Copyright Form and Payment received your paper will be published Online, even before the release date of Volume.
Additional Instructions for authors for a manuscript for the annual peer-reviewed Journal Issued by the Faculty of Arts – Ain Shams University (JMIH)
Abstract
This section should summarize the content of the paper and should detail the problems, experimental approach, major findings, and conclusion in one paragraph. Avoid abbreviation, diagram, and references in the abstract. It should be single-spaced and Try to keep the abstract below 150 words and should not exceed 250 words for full papers. Please make sure that the margins and layout explained below are followed as this will help us to maintain uniformity in the final print version of the journal. Both form and content of the paper have to be as per these guidelines else your paper will not be published even though its content has been accepted.
Keywords
Provide about 4-6 keywords that can identify the most important subjects covered by the paper. They must be placed at the end of the abstract.
Introduction
JMIH publishes papers in Arabic, English, and French in all main fields of the Medieval and Islamic History papers must be divided into various sections starting with 'Introduction' and ending with 'Conclusion'.
Text of paper should be divided into - Introduction, Materials, and Methods, Results, Discussions, References, or suitable headings in Medieval History, Crusades, Byzantium, Slavonic Countries, Islamic History, and Civilization, and related theoretically oriented papers and reviews.
The paper must be presented into one text with figures and Tables in their proper place.
The text heading may have 12 font titles. The graph/figure may have 12 pt font titles with good resolution.
The table/figure heading must be in text form and should not form part of the image.
The manuscript should include a brief introduction stating the purpose of the investigation and relating the manuscript to similar previous research.
Only information essential to the arguments should be presented.
The paper must be in final form since we will publish it directly. The paper should be exactly in this format.
The manuscript should be prepared in Arabic, English, or French using “MS Word” with A4 page. “Times New Roman” font should be used. The font size should be 12 pt, but the main subheadings may be 13 pt.
The article can be up to 7500 words excluding references and abstract.
For proper referring and fast publication, all manuscripts should be grammatically correct.
Text Formatting
The submitted article shall contain no tab or stylesheet. When necessary, the text shall be set in italic. Notes shall be put at the bottom of the page and automatically numbered from 1 to n. The basic structure of the submitted article shall be defined by unnumbered headings. Each table or illustration shall be provided in a high resolution in its proper place within the article. Illustration and table legends shall include the source unless the element is published for the first time, the author (photographer, designer, etc.), if any, and his/her affiliation
Major headings are to be in a bold font of 13 pt uppercase letters without underline as above.
Subheadings: Subheadings should be as here “Subheadings:”.
They should start at the left-hand margin on a separate line, followed by a colon “: ” without space.
Text continues directly after the subheading in the same line. The beginning of this paragraph shows a sub-subheading.
Article’s Title: The title should be centered across the top of the first page and should have a distinctive font of 13 points Times New Roman. It should be in a bold font and in lower case with initial capitals.
Authors’ names and addresses should be centered below the title.
The name(s) should be 12 points Times New Roman, and the affiliation(s) is the same but 11 points.
Bibliographical references
In the footnotes, bibliographical references should be 10 points Times New Roman and shall refer to the references provided at the end of the article. They shall contain the author’s family name and a short version of the article/volume’s title, and then page number(s). The authors must use Chicago University Style on the following website of chicagomanualofstyle.org.
References
References should be 12 points Times New Roman at the end of the article shall be drafted according to as the following:
Monograph: Muhammad, T. M., Muhammad, his Ethics and Qualities, Cambridge 2021.
Collective work: Muhammad, T. M. and Romer, C. (Eds.), Thought, Culture, and Historiography in Christian Egypt, 284-641 AD, Cambridge 2020.
Book, proceedings: Salem, N., "A Fragment of a Deed of a Surety, " in Muhammad, T. M. and Romer, C. (Eds.), Thought, Culture, and Historiography in Christian Egypt, 284-641 AD, Cambridge 2020, 191-195.
Article: Ameen, A., "Travelers' Works as an Important Source in Studying Archaeology in Light of the Hadji ‘Ali Mosque of Athens," Shedet 2 (2015), 6-22.
Chapter or article in a collective book: Grossmann, P., "Madinet Madi," in The Coptic Encyclopedia, vol. V, New York 1991, 1497-149.
Websites: Websites have to be written as a hyperlink with the last visit and time.
Note: IFAO or Dumbarton Oaks Abbreviations of the Journals must be used.
As for the Greek references and texts, they must be written in IFAO Unicode Greek font.
Quotations in the text must be written between converted commas with font 11pt.
Transliteration
Journal of Medieval and Islamic History adopts the list of Transliteration of Arabic and Persian Characters published in Encyclopaedia Islamica (“System of Transliteration of Arabic and Persian Characters”, in Encyclopaedia Islamica, Editors-in-Chief: Wilferd Madelung and Farhad Daftary. Consulted online on 18 March 2017, First published online: 2013; First print edition: ISBN: 9789004246911, 20131209), published by Brill. Kindly download the list from this website of encyclopaedia-islamica/system-of-transliteration-of-arabic-and-persian-characters-transliteration
Conclusion
The manuscript should have a relevant brief conclusion and should reflect the importance and future scope.
Arabic and English/French Abstracts
The manuscript should end with an Arabic and an English abstract summarizing the content of the paper.