JIR

Journal of Islamic Research

DESCRIPTION

This journal seeks articles related to the Islamic subjects. Its scope will include the following topics: Qur’an Research, Hadith Research, Islamic culture and civilization, Islamic history and Islamic sciences;

and such other topics as the Editors may deem appropriate. Articles need to make a significant contribution to the theoretical and /or methodological literature on the subject and contain a strong Islamic component.

Experimental, theoretical and applied papers on all aspects of Islamic issues, with scholarly attitude toward the role of the Quran and Hadith in establishing and spreading Islamic sciences, culture and civilization are welcome. The submitted manuscript or its essential content must not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication elsewhere. To merit publication in Journal of Islamic Research, authors should be substantial, written in clear English. The papers written according to the house style of the journal will be published. The authors must bear responsibility for their own papers. 

Types of article

Primary research papers (‘ORIGINAL ARTICLES’) and ‘TECHNICAL ARTICLES’ should not normally exceed ten printed pages. A ‘REVIEW’ submitted speculatively should generally have fewer than …… printed pages. Opinion papers (‘VIEWPOINT’) and ’RESEARCH IN CONTEXT’ articles are also welcome: the latter category is for papers that combine a review/overview of a subject area with original research that moves the topic forward.  Note that with the exception of Botanical Briefings, which are intended as short reviews, the number of pages suggested here is a guideline: in all cases the length of an article should be appropriate to its scientific content.

Summary of submission processes

Submission management and evaluation of submitted manuscripts will involve the Journal's online manuscript submission system. The manuscript text should be prepared in English (see also Transliteration below for details) and submitted online starting from our login page. Figures, tables and other types of content should be organized into separate files for submission (see PREPARING TABLE and FIGURE FILES, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION FILES and VIDEO FILES below for details). If you are using the online submission system for the first time please go to the login page and generate a login name and password after clicking on the “First time authors only should register here” link. If you are already registered but need to be reminded of your login name or password please go to the login page and click on “Unknown/Forgotten password?”. There is extensive guidance available throughout the submission process. To make use of this guidance please click on the “Author Instructions” link or the “Tips” link situated at the top of every screen.

If you are unable to access our web-based submission system, please contact the Editorial Office (e-mail:…..) for alternative methods of submitting your paper. The postal address is the Office of Islamic Research Journal - Editor-in-Chief, Faculty of Research, University of Qur’an and Etrat Studies, West Shahidan, Isfahan, Iran.

Contributors are invited to submit their manuscripts by e-mail in Microsoft Word format (e.g. DOC)

Only one font should be used throughout the text, e.g. Arial or Times New Roman.

Articles should not exceed 6,000 words. Articles should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Basic Sections of the paper

1. Title

An effective title should:

• Convey the main topics of the study.
• Highlight the importance of the research.
• Be concise.
• Attract readers.
• First thing which everybody reads!!!
• Important in literature searching
• Should not include extra words, such as “A Study of” or “Observations on”
• Should be specific enough
• Generally, should not include abbreviations
• Running title: short version of title—appears at tops of pages

2. Abstract

The abstract should be the best part of the paper. It is the most frequently read part of an article after the title. An abstract summarizes, in one paragraph, the major aspects of the entire paper in the following prescribed sequence:

• the question(s) you investigated (or purpose)
  • State the purpose very clearly in the first or second sentence.
  • the experimental design and methods used
    • Clearly express the basic design of the study.
    • Name or briefly describe the basic methodology used without going into excessive detail-be sure to indicate the key techniques used.
  • the major findings including key quantitative results, or trends 
    • report those results which answer the questions you were asking
    • Identify trends, relative change or differences, etc.
  • a brief summary of your interpretations and conclusions.
    • Clearly state the implications of the answers your results gave you.

Purposes of the Abstract:

• Provides an overview of the article (readers may read nothing else)
•  Provides context for those who do read the article
• Used by journals to assign reviewers
• Helps reader decide whether to read the article (ie, is this important to me?)
• Used by translation services for foreign readers

What Abstracts Are NOT:

• lengthy background information,
• references to other literature,
• abbreviations or terms that may be confusing to readers,
• Any sort of illustration, figure, or table, or references to them.
• Not substitutes for the article and should not be cited as references
• Not a summary of the entire article; should present main finding
• Do not contain enough information for a critical evaluation of the research

Characteristics of the Abstract:

• Accurate, coherent, and readable
• Concise, specific, and selective
• Self-contained, i.e. stand alone.

Content of an Abstract:

• Define purpose and scope of study, ie, the question
• Describe materials and methods used
• Summarize the results
• State the conclusions and their implications.
• The abstract should contain the essence of whole paper and should stand alone
• It should have 4 basic parts:¡Why the study was done? (Purpose of study/objective)
  • What was done? (Materials & Methods)
  •  What was found? (Main findings/results)
  •  What was concluded (Principal conclusions)
• Be concise, avoiding unnecessary details, no paragraphing
• Word count: 150 -200
• Key words : 3 –10 (Mesh)

3. Introduction

The Introduction should provide readers with the background information needed to understand your study, and the reasons why you conducted your experiments. The Introduction should answer the question: what question/problem was studied? Also:

• Background information:
  • What have others done?
  • Provide evidence: supported by limited number of relevant references.
• Purpose of study
  • Why undertake this research?
  • How does it relate to what has already been written?
  •  What is so different or special about your research?
• Should stimulate the readers interest

4. Materials and Methods

This section provides the reader with all the details of how you conducted your study. You should:

• Use subheadings to separate different methodologies.
• Describe what you did in the past tense.
• Describe new methods in enough detail that another researcher can reproduce your experiment.
• Describe established methods briefly, and simply cite a reference where readers can find more detail.
• State all statistical tests and parameters.

Purposes of the Methods Section

• To allow others to replicate what you did
  • In order to test it
  • In order to do further research
• To allow others to evaluate what you did
  • To determine whether the conclusions seem valid
  • To determine whether the findings seem applicable to other situations

Amount of Detail to Use:

• For well-known methods: name of method, citation of reference
• For methods previously described but not well known: brief description of method, citation of reference
• For methods that you yourself devise: relatively detailed description

The words:

• Should be written in past tense
• In some journals, may include subheads (which can help readers)
• May include tables and figures—for example:
  • Flowcharts¡Diagrams of apparatus
  • Tables of experimental conditions

5. Results

The Results section, simply states what you found, but does not interpret the results or discuss their implications. It should not include extensive discussion and data should not be repeated in both graphical and tabular form. As in the Materials and Methods section, use subheadings to separate the results of different experiments.

• Results should be presented in a logical order. In general this will be in order of importance, not necessarily the order in which the experiments were performed. Use the past tense to describe your results; however, refer to figures and tables in the present tense.
• Do not duplicate data among figures, tables, and text. A common mistake is to re-state much of the data from a table in the text of the manuscript. Instead, use the text to summarize what the reader will find in the table, or mention one or two of the most important data points. It is usually much easier to read data in a table than in the text.

6. Discussion and Conclusions

 The DISCUSSION section should avoid extensive repetition of the RESULTS and must finish with some conclusions. The majority of the Discussion and Conclusions sections should be an interpretation of your results. You should:

• Discuss your conclusions in order of most to least important.
• Compare your results with those from other studies: Are they consistent? If not, discuss possible reasons for the difference.
• Mention any inconclusive results and explain them as best you can. You may suggest additional experiments needed to clarify your results.
• Briefly describe the limitations of your study to show reviewers and readers that you have considered your experiment’s weaknesses.
• Discuss what your results may mean for researchers in the same field as you, researchers in other fields, and the general public. How could your findings be applied?
• State how your results extend the findings of previous studies.
• If your findings are preliminary, suggest future studies that need to be carried out.
• At the end of your Discussion and Conclusions sections, state your main conclusions once again.

Transliteration

The words transliteration should be done according to the tables as follows bellow:

 

 

 

 

 

Transliteration Table

Consonants

Ar= Arabic,       Pr= Persian,     OT= Ottoman Turkish,      Ur= Urdu

 

 

 

Vowels and Diphthongs

 

Urdu aspirated sounds

For aspirated sounds not used in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish add h after the letter and underline both the letters e.g.          جهـ jh         گهـ    gh

For Ottoman Turkish, modern Turkish orthography may be used.

 

 

Benefits to authors

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