Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam is a peer reviewed

Peer review

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, international academic journal

Academic journal

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 devoted to the study of classical Islam

Islam

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, Islamic religious thought, Arabic language

Arabic language

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 and literature

Arabic literature

Arabic literature is the writing produced, both prose and poetry, by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is adab which is derived from a meaning of etiquette, and implies politeness, culture and enrichment....

, the origins of Islamic institutions, and the interaction between Islam and other civilization

Civilization

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s. The founding editor is M. J. Kister. Since 1993, the editor is Yohanan Friedmann

Yohanan Friedmann

-Biography:Friedmann was born in Zákamenné, Czechoslovakia and immigrated to Israel with his parents in 1949. He attended high school at the Reali School in Haifa . In 1956 he began his undergraduate studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Department of Arabic Language and Literature,...

. The journal is published by the Institute of Asian Studies of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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. The journal is an annual

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, though at times two volumes are published in the same year. The first volume was published in 1979.