Submission Guidelines

Muqarnas: An Annual on Visual, Material, and Architectural Cultures of the Islamic World is a scholarly journal comprising articles on art, architectural history, archaeology, and all aspects of Islamic visual, material, and architectural cultures, historical and contemporary. It is sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and published by Brill. The journal publishes both full-length articles and shorter texts grouped within a separate section titled “Notes and Sources,” for which we particularly welcome studies introducing textual and visual primary sources.

 

The submission period for 2026 is now closed.

The next submission period is scheduled for spring 2027.  

 

Submission Checklist

Manuscripts should be submitted by email to the Managing Editor of Muqarnas at muqarnas@fas.harvard.edu.

A complete submission includes four elements:

  1. Microsoft Word document of the main text file.
    1. Articles should be no longer than 15,000 words (not including endnotes), and should be double-spaced throughout in 12-point font. Please use endnotes rather than footnotes; no separate bibliography is required.
    2. Be sure to include a word count with footnotes, and a word count without footnotes, on the first page of your article, underneath the title.
    3. When naming your Word document, please include your last name.
  2. Images and captions.
    1. All submissions must be accompanied by images, with an upper limit of 30.
    2. Each image should have a caption that provides identifying information and appropriate image credits.
    3. For initial consideration, low-resolution images should be embedded in a separate Word document or pdf, with a caption immediately below the image to which it pertains. Please do not submit individual TIFFs or JPEGs. If the article is ultimately accepted for publication, authors will then be expected to provide high-resolution TIFFs or JPEGs (at least 300 dpi at 4 x 6 inches) and to secure all necessary permissions.
  3. Abstracts and Keywords. Please submit a 150- to 200-word abstract and 12 keywords.
  4. CV. Include a brief CV stating the author’s institutional affiliation and title (if any), mailing address, phone number, and a list of publications.

 

Any submission that does not include these four elements will be returned to the author. Please remember to include your last name in the title of all files submitted. 

 

Articles must present original research that has not previously been published in any language. Authors must properly credit previous scholarship on the subject and cite the source of each quotation, with full bibliographic details given in the endnotes. All articles are subject to review by the Editorial Committee and anonymous external readers, whose comments will be sent to the author only if the article is accepted for publication. Authors may be expected to make revisions based on the feedback of the readers and editors. 

 

All authors will be notified as to the status of their submissions.

 

Accepted articles must conform to the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. For more information on preparing text and images for publication, consult the Muqarnas style sheet.