Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations

Aims & Scope

Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations promotes the scholarly study of Islam as a religious and intellectual tradition, and its relations with Christianity and other religions.

Islam as a religious and intellectual tradition includes: Islam as a historical tradition of faith and a current lived reality throughout the world; the development of religious teachings and debates about orthodox beliefs; major Muslim movements and thinkers; religious teachings and principles as motivation for individuals and societies; Islamic beliefs in new social contexts past and present; and, the future of Islam.

Islam in its relations with Christianity and other religions includes: Muslim attitudes towards other religions; Christian and other religious attitudes towards Islam; mutual influences between Islam and other religions; historical and contemporary interfaith collaborations and rivalries; religious factors in encounters and confrontations; and, Muslim minorities in non-Muslim societies and non-Muslims in Muslim-majority societies.

Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations is edited by the Department of Theology and Religion, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, and the World Religions and World Church (WRWC) program, University of Notre Dame, USA.

View Aims & Scope

---

Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.3
2024	0.40

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	20635

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	26

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.209

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	26

---

---

Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

---

Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Arts and Humanities and Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

---

Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Will the revolution be tweeted? A conceptual framework for understanding the social media and the Arab Spring

  Citation: 74

  Authors: Francesca, Giuseppe

• Individualization and religious authority in Western European Islam

  Citation: 71

  Authors: Frank

• Islamophobia in Contemporary Britain: The Evidence of the Opinion Polls, 1988–2006

  Citation: 65

  Authors: Clive D.

• Class cleavages and ethnic conflict: Coptic Christian communities in modern Egyptian politics

  Citation: 42

  Authors: Paul

• Eurabia Comes to Norway

  Citation: 30

  Authors: Sindre

• Towards a unified view of Islamic education

  Citation: 29

  Authors: J. Mark

• Indonesia's Nurcholish Madjid and Abdurrahman Wahid as intellectual<i>Ulama:</i>The meeting of Islamic traditionalism and modernism in neo‐modernist thought

  Citation: 27

  Authors: Greg

• Pakistan Federal Shariat Court's Collective<i>Ijtihād</i>on Gender Equality, Women's Rights and the Right to Family Life

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Ihsan

• Educating the^<i>c</i><i>Ulama</i>: Centres of Islamic religious training in Britain

  Citation: 25

  Authors: Sophie

• Performing Muslim Womanhood: Muslim Business Women Moderating Islamic Practices in Contemporary Indonesia

  Citation: 25

  Authors: Minako, Amelia

---