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The Australian Journal of Islamic Studies invites professors, academics, and early career researchers to submit a paper for its upcoming Special Issue, titled: Islamic Leadership: Towards a New Paradigm. The journal welcomes the submission of articles and book reviews, in keeping with editorial guidelines and policies, as set out on the journal website (see www.ajis.com.au).

The Special Issue of Australian Journal of Islamic Studies seeks to examine the crisis of Muslim societies in the modern world and its solution in new leadership paradigm. It seeks to address the following questions:

1. Is contemporary Islamic and Muslim crisis a crisis of Islamic leadership?
2. Do Muslims need a new leadership to bring them and their societies out of crisis?
3. Why is new Islamic leadership paradigm so important in the modern world?
4. Are there role model Muslim leaders that stand out as an exception to the crisis we are seeing in the Islamic leadership?

The Special Issue is designed to foster and disseminate ongoing and new research about Islamic leadership as a global phenomenon. The term “Islamic” is meant to connote prescription to a unique way of life originating from Qur’an and Prophet Muhammad’s lifestyle. By “leadership” it is meant an organisational framework as well as an established practice, thus, as an institution.

Please email Special Issue Editor (jan.ali@westernsydney.edu.au) if you have further questions.

AJIS is seeking submissions for Volume 7, Issue 2. This issue welcomes scholarship on Islam and Muslims in Australia and worldwide. If you have a paper that aligns with our journal aims and objectives, we would like to consider your submission for our upcoming new issue. Contributions are encouraged from Islam and Muslim related disciplines and sub-disciplines; these may include theology, philosophy, sociology, jurisprudence, contemporary studies, comparative religion, spirituality, Qur’anic and Sunnah studies, history and art.