Submissions

Author Guidelines

1. The research must be original, make a meaningful scholarly contribution, and follow recognized scientific methodologies in the fields of humanities, social sciences, and Islamic studies.

2. The research should focus on development in one of the areas of civilizational advancement and on the integration of Islamic and social sciences in ways that address diverse contemporary realities and people’s lives. Relevant areas within the journal’s scope include religious, intellectual, jurisprudential, legal, political, leadership, administrative, educational, psychological, economic, historical, literary, cultural, technological, media, and artistic development.

3. Particular attention must be given to proper documentation and referencing. Manuscripts must adhere to correct Arabic language usage and comply with accepted academic standards relating to citation, referencing, punctuation, and numbering.

4. The journal adopts the ABA referencing style, with citations presented at the top of the page according to the following formats:

   References within the research:

   Citations should be abbreviated to include the author’s commonly known surname, year of publication, volume, and page number, as follows:

   (Al-Shawkānī, 1994, Vol. 2, p. 435)

   (Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Resolution No. 163, 2007)

   If more than one work by the same author is cited in the manuscript, the title of the relevant work should also be included, as follows:

   (Al-Shawkānī, Fatḥ al-Qadīr, 1994, Vol. 2, p. 435)

   References at the end of the research:

   References should be presented in the following order:

   Author’s commonly known name, full name of the author, title of the book, name of the editor or verifier where applicable (place of publication: publisher, edition number, Hijri and/or Gregorian year of publication).

   For example:

   Al-Shawkānī, Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī, Fatḥ al-Qadīr al-Jāmiʿ bayna Fannay al-Riwāyah wa-al-Dirāyah min ʿIlm al-Tafsīr (Beirut: Dār Ibn Kathīr, 1st ed., 1414 AH/1994 CE).

   Where the reference has no individual author, it should be written as follows:

   Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Maʿālim al-ʿAwda ilā al-Manhaj al-Ḥaḍārī fī al-Islām (Makkah: International Islamic Fiqh Academy, Resolution No. 163, 2007).

   For journal articles and conference papers, the reference should include the author’s name, the title of the study or article in quotation marks, the editor’s name followed by “et al.” where applicable, place of publication, publisher, date, volume or issue number, and page range.

   Citations from social media and online platforms should follow the same general format, with the addition of the relevant URL and the date of access. For example:

   Al-Khālidī, Ṣalāḥ, Bayan Platform for Training and Scientific Research, Series No. 8, 1442 AH/2021 CE.
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBk55Pzi3c0&t=54s

5. When citing a Qur’anic verse, the name of the surah and the verse number must be stated at the top of the page.

6. When citing a Prophetic hadith from hadith collections, preference should be given to authentic narrations, particularly those recorded in Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī and Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim. For narrations cited from sources other than the two Ṣaḥīḥ collections, the degree of authenticity or weakness of the hadith must be indicated. The hadith number must also be provided in the citation at the top of the page.

7. When citing poetry, the name of the poet and the source from which the verse of poetry was taken must be provided.

8. When citing a manuscript, the following information must be provided: the author’s full name, the complete title of the manuscript, the place where the manuscript is preserved, the date of transcription, the total number of folios or pages, and the specific folio or page cited. It must also be indicated whether the citation is taken from the recto (a) or verso (b) side of the folio.

9. Submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by experts in the relevant field, selected confidentially, to assess their originality, novelty, scholarly presentation, and suitability for publication.

10. Each manuscript will be reviewed by at least two reviewers, or more where deemed necessary by the Editorial Board. The Editorial Board’s decision regarding the suitability of a manuscript for publication shall be final, and the Board shall not be obliged to provide justification for its decision.

11. Manuscripts may be subject to revision, and authors must complete the required amendments within one month from the date on which the editorial decision is received.

12. The views expressed in published research are solely those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editorial Board or the institution.