Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that fit the aims and scope of Al-Nasr. Submissions are managed through Open Journal Systems (OJS).

Journal Sections

Al-Nasr publishes original Research Articles and Book Reviews in the fields of Islamic Studies, Qur’anic Studies, Ḥadīth Studies, Sīrah Studies, Islamic jurisprudence, Islamic law, theology, philosophy, Sufism, ethics, Muslim societies, Muslim history, Islamic civilization, religious studies, humanities, social sciences, and contemporary issues relevant to Pakistan and the wider Muslim world.

The journal does not accept other submission categories unless formally announced by the editorial office.

Research Articles

Research Articles must present original scholarly research, a clear research problem, methodology, analysis, references, and academic contribution. Submissions must follow the journal’s formatting, citation, ethics, and peer-review requirements.

Research Articles should be analytical rather than merely descriptive. Authors should explain the research problem, relevant scholarship, method or approach, sources used, main argument, findings, and contribution to knowledge.

Book Reviews

Book Reviews must critically examine recently published or academically significant books relevant to the journal’s scope. A Book Review should include full bibliographic details of the reviewed book, a summary of its main argument, critical evaluation, and relevance to the field.

A Book Review should not be promotional. It should provide a balanced academic assessment of the work under review and should discuss its scholarly contribution, strengths, limitations, and usefulness for researchers, teachers, students, or institutions.

Peer Review

Research Articles are processed through a double-blind peer-review system. In this process, the identities of authors and reviewers are kept confidential as far as possible.

Book Reviews are evaluated by the editorial team and may be sent for expert review where necessary.

Editorial decisions are based on academic merit, originality, relevance to the journal’s aims and scope, methodological quality, ethical compliance, reviewer reports, and editorial assessment.

Languages

Al-Nasr accepts manuscripts in English, Urdu, and Arabic.

For all non-English submissions, authors must provide:

English title
English abstract
English keywords
Roman-script author names
Complete author affiliations in English

References in non-Roman scripts should be transliterated or accompanied by Roman-script bibliographic details where required for indexing, metadata, and international discoverability.

Publication Fee

Al-Nasr is an open-access journal. Readers and libraries are not charged for access to published content.

To support editorial management, website maintenance, manuscript production, copyediting, formatting, DOI/metadata preparation where applicable, archiving, and publication services, the journal charges a publication fee after acceptance:

Pakistani Authors: PKR 20,000
International Authors: USD 100

There is no submission fee unless separately announced.

The publication fee does not influence editorial decisions, peer review, reviewer recommendations, revision requirements, acceptance, rejection, or publication priority. Fee waivers or reductions may be considered on request where justified.

License

All articles and book reviews published in Al-Nasr are open-access works distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits use, distribution, reproduction, sharing, and adaptation in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are properly credited.

The CC BY 4.0 license applies to the author’s published work. Third-party materials included in an article or book review may be subject to separate copyright terms where indicated.

Submission Requirements

Submissions must be original, must not be under consideration elsewhere, and must follow the journal’s formatting, citation, ethics, and peer-review requirements.

Authors are responsible for ensuring that all quotations, translations, references, page numbers, Qur’anic references, Ḥadīth references, legal citations, and historical claims are accurate and properly documented.

Submissions may be declined before peer review if they fall outside the journal’s scope, are incomplete, lack scholarly structure, contain serious ethical concerns, or do not provide a clear academic contribution.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

The submission fits one of the journal sections: Research Articles or Book Reviews.
The manuscript has not been previously published and is not under consideration by another journal.
The manuscript follows the Author Guidelines, including formatting, citation, ethics, and peer-review requirements.
The manuscript is original, properly documented, and free from plagiarism, duplicate publication, fabricated references, or misleading claims.
The manuscript includes complete author details, affiliations, abstract, keywords, references, and any required declarations.
For non-English submissions, the authors provide an English title, English abstract, English keywords, Roman-script author names, and complete author affiliations in English.
References are complete, accurate, and include transliterated or Roman-script bibliographic details where required for indexing and metadata.
The authors understand that Research Articles are processed through a double-blind peer-review system.
The authors understand that Book Reviews are evaluated by the editorial team and may be sent for expert review where necessary.
The authors understand that the journal charges a publication fee after acceptance: Pakistani authors: PKR 20,000; International authors: USD 100.
The authors understand that there is no submission fee unless separately announced.
The authors understand that the publication fee does not influence editorial decisions, peer review, reviewer recommendations, acceptance, or rejection.
The authors understand that published articles and book reviews are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
The authors have removed author-identifying information from the manuscript file where required for double-blind peer review.
The authors agree to cooperate with the editorial office during review, revision, correction, or investigation where necessary.

Research Articles

Research Articles are processed through a double-blind peer-review system. Authors should remove identifying information from the manuscript file where required.

Make a new submission to the Research Articles section.

Book Reviews

Book Reviews are evaluated by the editorial team and may be sent for expert review where necessary. Book Reviews are not treated as original research articles, but they must maintain scholarly tone, proper documentation, ethical responsibility, and relevance to the aims and scope of Al-Nasr.

Make a new submission to the Book Reviews section.

Copyright Notice

© 2026 The Author(s). Published by Al-Qamar Islamic Research Institute. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits use, distribution, reproduction, sharing, and adaptation in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are properly credited.

Authors retain copyright of their published work. By publishing with Al-Nasr, authors agree that their article or book review will be published as an open-access work under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), unless otherwise stated.

The CC BY 4.0 license applies to the author’s published article or book review. Third-party materials included in an article or book review may be subject to separate copyright terms where indicated.

Privacy Statement

The names, email addresses, affiliations, and other personal information entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of Al-Nasr, including submission management, editorial communication, peer review, publication, indexing metadata, and journal administration.

This information will not be made available for any unrelated purpose or to any unrelated third party, except where required for normal journal operations, publication metadata, legal obligations, ethical investigation, indexing, archiving, or protection of the scholarly record.