Academic Journal
JIHAT
The peer-reviewed academic journal of Laṭāʾif, rigorous scholarship across theology, philosophy, fiqh, hadith, literature, and Islamic civilization.
Current Issue
Volume 3, № 1
Spring 2025
The Self in Classical Islamic Thought
Nine essays gathered around a single question: what was the self that the classical Islamic disciplines were trying to know, train, and address? The issue moves from kalām anthropology to the lexicon of the Sufis, from legal personhood to the literary first person.
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Editorial: On the Self the Tradition Knew
The Editors
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The Nafs in Early Kalām: Categories and Concerns
Tofael Nuruddin
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Ibn Sīnā’s ‘Floating Man’ Reconsidered
Syed Ahaz bin Atif
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Legal Personhood in the Mālikī Tradition
Rafiul Muntakim
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The First Person of al-Niffarī
Faatima Uddin
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Selfhood and Sincerity in Ghazālian Ethics
Aaishah Lombard
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Reading the Self in Manuscript Marginalia
Aaishah Lombard
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Review Essay: Three Recent Studies on the Soul
The Editors
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Documents: A Letter of al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
Translated by the Editors
Past Issues
Archive
Reason, Revelation, and the Modern University
Adab as Method
Translating the Tradition
Inaugural Issue: On Intellectual Renewal
Submissions
Guidelines
- Original research, 6,000–12,000 words.
- Chicago-style citations; full transliteration per IJMES.
- Arabic source quotations preserved with translation in footnotes.
- Abstract of 200 words and five keywords.
- Anonymised manuscript for double-blind review.
- Submit to jihat@lataif.review.
Editorial Process
Peer Review
- 1. Editorial screening for fit and scholarly competence.
- 2. Double-blind review by two specialist readers.
- 3. Revisions and dialogue with the author.
- 4. Literary copy-edit and transliteration audit.
- 5. Issue placement and publication, HTML and PDF.
Editorial Board
Convened from across the discipline.
The full editorial board and advisory council will be announced with the inaugural printed volume. JIHAT welcomes correspondence from scholars willing to serve as readers in their fields of specialisation.