Focus and Scope
Al Qalam aims to provide the researchers of Islamic Studies and its associated fields of Social Sciences and Humanities a platform for publishing their scholarly manuscripts with quite convenience and unprecedented facility. For about three decades, this interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary journal has provided a forum to publishing articles of high quality regarding numerous disciplines and approaches that are directly or indirectly related to Islamic Learning and Thought. In particular, the research works regarding field of the Glorious Quran, Sunnah, Fiqh, Hadith, and their interrelationship are our first priority and are published with great gusto. Moreover, the research regarding the practical aspects – social, educational, economic, political, and spiritual – of Man’s life and Islamic stance thereof draw our special attention. Besides, the articles that endeavor to logically prove Islamic viewpoint viz-a-viz the challenges posited by the threats of Western Philosophical Thought particularly modernism and postmodernism as true are welcomed with open arms.
Al Qalam helps promote original scholarship that signifies an awesome awareness of the conceptual and systematic problems raised by the study of social issues like extremism, radicalism, poverty, unemployment, corruption etc. Moreover, Al Qalam publishes works of the researchers without taking into consideration the differences of caste, colour or creed. In a nutshell, innovative and cutting-edge articles of wide range of knowledge and intellect are enthusiastically welcomed. Al Qalam is committed to peer-review probity and integrity and maintaining the towering and imposing standards of review. Once your manuscript has been assessed for suitability by the editor (s), it will then be double-blind peer-reviewed by an independent and anonymous expert (s).
Section Policies
Articles
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Peer Review Process
Review Procedure:
All submitted manuscripts are reviewed through 'double-blind' peer review process that means the identities of the authors are kept confidential from the reviewers, and vice versa. To make this possible, anonymized version of the manuscript are sent to referees.
Desk Review
Submitted papers are first considered by the editor after submission. Papers that do not fall within the scope of the journal are 'desk-rejected'. In addition, papers that fail to meet a minimum threshold for quality and originality are also rejected without being sent out to the reviewers.
The standard procedure of an initial editorial review by the internal editorial committee consists of the content, scope, formatting, citations according to recommended Style, i.e., Chicago Manual of Style, (Bibliographies and Notes format) and is usually completed in three to four weeks
Peer Review Policy
Papers passing through this initial editorial scrutiny are then typically sent out to minimum three referees (one national and two international). ". If one or more of these turn down the invitation to provide a review, other referees will subsequently be appointed. The authors will be informed when Editors decide further review is required. All publication decisions are made by the journal’s Chief Editor on the basis of the referees’ reports (reviewers report).
Please bear in mind that the peer review process takes another two- three months. Therefore, the contributors are expected to bear with us as we complete the process to ensure, that the Al-Qalam adheres to the highest quality standards.
In case if a manuscript is found to be plagiarized (see plagiarism policy) after publication, the Chief Editor will conduct a preliminary investigation, maybe with the help of a suitable committee constituted for the purpose. If the manuscript is found to be plagiarized beyond the acceptable limits, the journal will contact the author’s Institute / College / University and Funding Agency, if any.
We are advising all the author(s), do not submit the same paper to multiple journals. Author(s) should wait for the review status of the paper.
Publication Frequency
Publication Schedule
Al-Qalam Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal published on a biannual basis, with two issues appearing each year (June and December). Articles are published collectively as part of a scheduled issue and are made available online through the journal's website.
Open Access Policy
Open Access Policy
The journal publishes original research articles belonging to the realm of Islam, Humanities and Social Sciences. This journal accords free access and full freedom to its readers for copying, downloading, printing the articles and crawling them for indexing; passing them as data to software or using them for any other legal and legitimate purpose whatever. In this way, this journal fully observes the open access policy as defined by DOAJ. Thus, this journal neither imposes any embargo period nor it impels its readers for registering themselves before reading any of its contents. However, it charges a nominal fee if a demand for a printed version is made. The journal holds fast the instructions and guidelines as described in the “Principles of Transparency and Best Practices in Scholarly Publishing".
Al Qalam
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Al-Qalam Research Journal
Institute of Islamic Studies, University of the Punjab, Lahore
Peer-reviewed Academic Research Journal
Contact
Email: al-qalam.is@pu.edu.pk
University of the Punjab, Lahore