Kanz (“the Treasure” in English) is inviting potential authors to submit their papers. Founded under the aegis of Respect Graduate School (RGS), our journal is an on-line, interdisciplinary, popular academic journal that aims to examine diversity-in-unity and unity-in-diversity within faith traditions in general, and within the Islamic faith tradition in particular. It sets itself the bold task of conveying the combined wisdom of modern religious studies and traditional religious disciplines to the minds and hearts of not only academics but also those who wonder about the relevance of religious traditions to life in present-day society. Benefiting from the current literary, historical, phenomenological, comparative, and theoretical modes of scholarly inquiry, our journal seeks to fathom the enduring wisdom of foundational sacred texts, rituals, and symbols. Open to learning from the religious Other, it underscores the importance of a spirituality grounded in one’s particular faith tradition.

Examples of topics of interest for our journal include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Future of digital Islamicate;
• The future of Qur’anic studies in the West;
• The state of Hizmet and Risale-i Nur Studies;
• Building bridges between the Shiite and Sunni Islam;
• The rights of women: Approaches and trends in modern Islamic law and theology;
• LGBTQ+ societies and Islam today;
• Dialectical Islamic theology (Kalam) and modernity;
• Accommodating the religious “other” within Islamic and non-Islamic faith traditions;
• Islamic Ethics and New Technological Developments;
• The state of the modern-day debates on, and issues of, epistemology in the West and the Islamic East;
• Exploring Islam: theology and spiritual practice in America.

The journal’s managing editorial team: Dr. Albert Frolov, Dr. Zuleyha Mary Fikret, and Beyza Nur Ugur.

Please refer to the detailed guidelines for submission to our journal using Kanz Journal Submission Guidelines.