Journal Publication Standards and Requirements

 

📘 The journal publishes research and articles with Islamic and Arab content, or those that deal with the Islamic world and its future through diverse studies in various fields. 

📘 The magazine seeks originality and depth, commitment to the middle path, and following the rules of the scientific research method in the studies and articles submitted to it. It reminds the distinguished writers of what our ancestors agreed upon regarding the seven sections of authorship, which are:

  • Either something that has never been done before, so he invents it.
  • Or something incomplete, so he completes it.
  • Or something obscure, so he explains it.
  • Or something long, so he shortens it without changing any of its meanings.
  • Or something scattered, so he gathers it.
  • Or something mixed, so he arranges it.
  • Or something that its author made a mistake in, so he corrects it.

 

📘 The magazine emphasizes the importance of using sources and references, and gives special importance to manuscript and rare sources, provided that the attribution to the pages of the sources and references is in the margin, and that the margins of each page are numbered separately.


📘 Research and articles are submitted to the journal, corrected and stored on a magnetic disk in the Word system, accompanied by a paper copy, provided that the number of pages of the research or article is from 15 to 25 pages, and the committee may summarize or abbreviate texts that exceed the required limit.


📘 The production may be submitted in a foreign language, provided that the writer provides a summary of it in Arabic. The journal appreciates the efforts made in scientific production and evaluates it on this basis.


📘 The journal also accepts translated research and articles if the translation is accurate, honest, and accompanied by a copy of the foreign text.


📘 Research published in any form of publication will not be accepted.


📘 The writer is paid a financial reward for his production, after it has been approved by the Evaluation and Correction Committee, and approved for publication by the Editorial Board.


📘 The journal reserves the right to publish texts according to the editorial board’s plan, and at the time it deems appropriate, and it has the right to republish the texts separately within a group of research papers in their original language or translated into any other language without the permission of the text owner.


📘 The magazine invites writers and researchers inside and outside Libya to participate with their scientific efforts, which will be appreciated and valued, according to the following methodological controls:

  1. The research must be new in its subject matter and adhere to the correct scientific method.
  2. The title should be specific in meaning and fully applicable to its content.
  3. The research should be divided into a scientific, logical, and interconnected division into an introduction, topics, or sections, according to the scientific material, knowing that the division into chapters is not suitable for research published in scientific journals.
  4. The introduction should include its most important elements, which are the importance of the topic, the motives for writing about it, its problems, previous studies on it, its methodology, and its division. The introduction should begin with praise and prayers for the Prophet - may God bless him and grant him peace.
  5. The verses are written in the Qur’anic script according to the narration of Hafs on the authority of Asim al-Kufi, enclosed in the two flowering brackets like this: ﭽ ﭼ. The ellipsis is not used, in order to purify the Qur’an from what this mark carries of a meaning that is not appropriate for its explanation.
  6. The Prophetic hadiths are authentically authenticated by following the method of the people of hadith, which is to precede the name of the source with the words “narrated by him,” “extracted by him,” or “extracted by so-and-so,” in his Sahih or Sunan, in such-and-such book, such-and-such chapter, such-and-such number, such-and-such volume and page, and the narrator of the hadith if it is not mentioned in the text, and the ruling on it if it is not in the two Sahihs, and the hadith is limited to quotation marks like this: (( )) and the ellipsis is not used.
  7. When referring to dictionaries of all types, the word “al” must be mentioned. If the researcher refers to more than one dictionary, the word is documented in the last dictionary and is not repeated in each dictionary.
  8. Publication information must be complete in the bibliography, and must not be written when the book is first published.
  9. The quoted text does not exceed one page, and is limited to quotation marks like this: (( )) and the reference to it is by mentioning the book and its author briefly, without the word “is considered.” If the researcher alters the text, the name of the source must be preceded by the word “is considered.”
  10. Adhering to academic integrity, by attributing quotes and quotations to their owners, taking care to write the names of books and authors correctly, without changing their names.
  11. If the research is an investigation, the investigators’ method must be followed precisely.
  12. The text should be written in Traditional Arabic font, size 14, and the footnotes should be in size 10, and should be numbered automatically.
  13. The editorial board has the right to exclude any research that does not adhere to the correct scientific method, or whose author does not adhere to amending the notes.