Publishing ethics
The Editor and the Editorial Board of QSA n.s. are solely responsible for the decision to publish or reject the articles submitted. Submitted articles will be reviewed by at least two anonymous experts (double-blind peer review). Acceptance is subject to a positive assessment by the reviewers; authors could be asked to amend their articles according to the reviewers’ suggestions. Articles will be evaluated on the basis of their scientific content only, without discrimination of any kind. In case the QSA n.s. Editors and Editorial Board notice mistakes, inaccuracies or plagiarism in an article, they will warn the Author and the Publisher and undertake the actions they deem appropriate to resolve the issue. Authors must follow the Guidelines of QSA n.s. Submitted articles must be original in all their parts: they must not have been published in nor submitted to other journals. All works consulted must be properly quoted by Authors. QSA n.s. follows the principles of publication ethics as stated by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). All authors are encouraged to visit its website (https://publicationethics.org/) to ensure that their submissions comply with COPE’s standards.

For further information see Brill’s Publication Ethics in Brill’s website.

The Review adopts the double-blind peer review evaluation system.
The form for the referees in PDF can be downloaded in the appendix.

The Quaderni di Studi Arabi began since 2006 a New Series, which is published by the Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino of Rome. The review, that was founded in 1983 – with an issue devoted to the doyen of Arabian studies, Francesco Gabrieli – aims to provide a forum of interdisciplinary discussion on the lines of a publishing program, that has become consolidated over the last twenty years in a significant production.
Their specific subject is the Arab civilization in its historical-cultural context and the analysis of a lot of aspects, in which it has expressed itself.
The New Series is divided into annual volumes, which consist of a monographic part by an expert in this field, of a part of a general nature, and of the section Notes and Reviews.

The popular poetry, the places and the imaginary world in Arabic literature, the historical methodology, the poetry of heroes and bandits, criticism, the Muslim Sicily, the researches in the field of Arab-Islamic archeology appear among the already discussed topics and those ones already planned for the future issues.
The review makes use of an International Scientific Committee and publishes original articles in the chief European languages, without forgetting the iconographic documentation.

 

Form for referees (pdf format)

 

The review is on JSTOR.